Organized Hunger

With a hard winter before him Colonel Frederick Pope, foremost U. S. consultant in the building of Soviet nitrate fixation plants, sailed from Manhattan last week on his seventh voyage to Russia.

"If there is a famine in the Soviet Union," said Colonel Pope, ''it will be the best organized famine in the world. It will be so distributed that no one section of the country actually will starve." Last August the Colonel took to the U. S. State Department what his office calls "a definite message from the Soviet Government that they would be glad to discuss having a United States unofficial representative in Moscow and that the result would be ... a substantial increase in Soviet business coming to the United States." A month earlier the State Department had denied rumors that the Colonel was himself already the Department's "unofficial representative" in Russia. After bearding the Department in Washington, doughty Colonel Pope said before sailing: "Now is not the time to resume diplomatic relations. It would be the duty of an unofficial observer to look after the interests of American firms doing business in Russia and also to look after the interests of all Americans there. Both needs grow greater every day!"

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