One word further regarding the disclosures regarding Russia's internal and
external policy, and the attribution to Stalin of a strong pro-German attitude, ascribed to an alleged Soviet General Krivitsky and published in the Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphia. The articles attracted so much attention, here as well as in America, that a declaration by the News Masses (a Left-wing weekly) that Krivitsky was in fact an Austrian named Schmelka Ginsberg, that he was never a General, that he never set eyes on Stalin or Voroshilov: (about whom he wrote with confident intimacy) assumed some importance until it was contradicted. I have now been sent from America the Post's reply, in the form of a leading article, to the New Masses and I am bound to say I never read a more unconvincing defence in my life. The Post admits that " Krivitsky " is a pseudonym ; it admits that " Krivitsky " was assisted in his work by the well- known anti-Soviet journalist Isaac Don Levine. For the rest it is content to dismiss the denial as " an impudent falsity "— altogether a singularly ineffective vindication.
TANUS.
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