"Wolf Law!"

Infrequently does taciturn Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin make a public speech. In Moscow one day last week he fairly let himself go, pictured the proletariats of other countries as "watching breathlessly the victories of the Soviet Fatherland!"

"They watch," cried Stalin, "and they cry out to us 'Your work is our work. We will support you against Capitalism. We will kindle the World Revolution!'"

To make all this more vivid Stalin envisioned what he conceives to be the current consternation in Capitalist countries. "Look," he cried, "how some well-known and honorable gentlemen rave and yell against our party--Fish of the United States, Churchill of England and Poincare of France. Why do they yell and rave? Because the policy of our party is correct and because it is achieving victory after victory.

"In Capitalist countries there are crises of unemployment, poverty of the masses --incurable diseases of Capitalism. Our system does not suffer from these diseases, because the power is in the hands of the working class; because we gather resources rationally and correctly and distribute them to all branches of national economy."

These words the Dictator spoke not irresponsibly or to a cheering mob in the open air, but earnestly, gravely to an assemblage of Soviet economic experts in Moscow who nodded their grave, silent approval.

Declaring that Russia must not slacken but must even speed up the tempo of her Five-Year Plan, Stalin concluded almost fiercely:

"To lessen the tempo means to fall behind--and backward we are beaten. We do not want to be beaten. The whole history of old Russia amounted to repeated beatings because of its backwardness.

"The Mongol khans beat us. Then the Turkish begs beat us; then the Swedish feudal lords and then the Polish aristocrats. Then the Anglo-French capitalists beat us and the Japanese barons beat us.

"Such is the law of Capitalism--beat the backward and weak--the wolf law of Capitalism!"

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