TALK WITH STALIN

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1934, Page 13

TALK WITH STALIN

i — H. G. IVELLS VSITS RUSSIA AGAIN. > - SUPERVISION OF STRANGERS. L Ending his first visit to Russia for 14 j yaars, Mr. H. Wells has found, I hear, ’ i that the handling of distinguished stran- : gsrs has been greatly perfected in the 1 interval (writes “Peterborough” in the Daily Telegraph). ’ ! Like any official personage, he was J whirled around in a big saloon car from ! one reception, banquet, or private view ' to another, and was never left to wander : .alone. 1 f His constant cicerone was George An- . dreichin, of the Intourist organisation, a ■ Macedonian Communist of great charm • and long American experience, to whom the most important of Anglo Saxon sightseers are entrusted; he thus atones for ; his past loyalties to Trotsky. Mr. Wells went to Moscow primarily 1 to see Stalin—“to collect the last of my I Essential men,” as he put it. In his three-hours’ talk through an ■ interpreter, it is unlikely that Mr. Wells I heard any startling revelations. Stalin’s t statements are usually the acme of ortho- : dox Stalinism, unlike those of Lenin, which were occasionally indiscreet in the eyes of strict Leninists.