BRITISH COMMUNISTS’ MODEST PRESENT FOR STALIN’S BIRTHDAY
LONDON, Dec. 13—British Communists are making a very modest contribution to the stream of presents whichare being sent to Mr. Stalin by his friends and admirers for his birthday on December 21.
The only British presents so far announced are a birthday cake, made by the Friends of the Soviet Union in the Isle of Wight, and a large book of signatures containing birthday greetings. There will, doubtless, be' many more, but so far they have received no publicity.
Communists in countries behind the Iron Curtain are, however, preparing to be much more demonstrative. In Czechoslovakia, the highest point in the Tatra Mountains, the 8000-feet-high Lomnitzer-Spitze, is to be renamed Joseph Stalin Peak, and in Prague, Czechs are preparing to erect a 90ft. high minument to the Russian leader.
Hungary has been even more expansive. There, Communists have presented Mr. Stalin with an entire new train which will leave Hungarian, soil in time to arrive in Moscow on Mr. Stalin’s birthday. The Hungarian Government also is issuing a commemorative set of Stalin stamps. The Rumanian Academy of Science is making special arrangements t<* leave nothing unsaid about Mr. Stalin. On his birthday the whole academy will assemble to listen to a series «t lectures about the generalissimo. 1 One to be delivered by the president of the academy will deal with him as “leader of the world of science.” Another will deal with hin, as the “initiator of the transformation of Nature in the Soviet,” and al third as the “leading military genius' of our times.” The titles of other lectures will be: “Stalin as the leading theoritician in the struggle for peace and brotherhood among nations,” and, "Stalin, the successor to Lenin in developing the theory of the construction of Socialism.” Australain Communists have presented Mr. Stalin with complete furnishings for a new study.—Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 15 December 1949, Page 5
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