Unmaltreated Nobody

Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov addressed a violent memorandum last week to all nations with which he deals, complaining of German atrocities against Soviet prisoners of war: "Miserable rations of rotten bread or rotten potatoes . . . hands cut off. eyes gouged, stomachs ripped open . . . raping and outraging of the honor of women . . . stripping the wounded naked. . . ."

The Germans produced for the foreign press Georg, only son of Foreign Commissar Molotov, as proof that Foreign Commissar Molotov was lying. Georg, the spokesman pointed out, was not starved; he had two hands, two eyes and a sound stomach; he possessed honor intact and was not naked.

The only trouble with this answer, said the Russians (aside from the obvious fallacy of arguing from the particular to the general), was one small error in fact. Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov has no son.

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