STALIN’S FEAR

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 100, 30 March 1937, Page 7

STALIN’S FEAR

ACTIVITIES OF SPIES. STERN ACTION PROMISED. THREAT OF CONQUEST? (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received March 30, 11.30 a.m. MOSCOW’, March 29. As a measure against sabotage and Trotskyism, the General Scretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (M. Josef Stalin) has ordered the raising of the standard of political education of 4000 highly-placed members of the Communist Party, as well as of 40,000 average leaders and 100,000 of lower rank. He demands that all leaders shall provide two substitutes capable of taking their places. Secretaries of committees and party “cells” must undergo courses in Marxism and Leninism. M. Stalin, setting out bis now programme against sabotage and Trotskyism, declared that France and England were full of German spies and wreckers, while Germany was equally full of English and French spies and diversionists.

Ho asks why. therefore, should they take up a more friendly attitude towards the Soviet and send fewer wreckers and spies there. He adds that capitalist countries are only awaiting the chance to attack and conquer the Soviet Union. M. Stalin blames higher Soviet officials for not detecting plots against the regime, and declares that M. Trotsky’s reserves are inside and outside Russia.