his own personal control of the: Soviel's military forces. Others hold that he has actually been com~ polled to put the Army chiefs on. the level of equality with himself. It is difficult immediately to discern. which view is correct, On general principles, however, it may be serted that in the long run a dictatorship which rests on military' support Is likely to find that the Army is its master. When all al-Towances are made for the superiority of the totalitarian' machine over the human factor, the eventual inability of that machine to withstand incessant strain in the change of its immediate' operators must surely assert itself. M, Stalin's tame organs of opinion fare working themselves up into a frenzy of hate against outside influences which they allege have Instigate the treason to which Tukhachovsky and his _fellowvielims obligingly but surprisingly confessed. This may all accord with actualities but, in the absence of those prosaic data which the unregenerate call proofs, it is more logical at present to assign their origin to mysterious manifestations beyond the wit of ordinary observers to fathom, The Marshal and his seven brother-officers who, a bare month ego, were brilliant heroes of an "invincible" Army are merely "dogs" to whom a dog's death" has been accorded. There is romanticism in sooth. For the time being many "toilers" without the paradise which is Russia will prefer the sordid but comparative security of a drab capitlism. Moscow's mysteries seem to be too exciting for healthy probing.
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