Lenin's Will

One Krumm Heller, a writer on international affairs, presented the world with some hitherto unpublished excerpts from the will of the great Lenin, founder of Bolshevik Russia. The excerpts, which may be authentic but are probably false, read:

"Kamenev is hesitating and unstable ; he is an uncertain man who should be observed and spied upon constantly.

"Zinoviev is a talentless individual, but he is an ambitious man who constitutes a great danger for our Party and should be closely watched in all his movements.

"Stalin is a silly sort of person. This man aims at being dictator of Russia--a thing which would be a catastrophe if it were to happen. My successor should never allow, in any case, that this man be appointed Secretary of the Communist Party.

"Bucharin is just as much of a booby as Stalin; he does not possess the slightest notion of dialectics, but he delights in writing, although he does it so badly.

"Trotzky possesses considerable talent, but he is addicted to posing; he is the only one who is destined to become leader of the Communist Party, because he knows how to make himself respected and to maintain discipline."