LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Stalin and his Successors
SIR,----Once I was Thi Times correspondent in Tsarist Russia, and I have also visited it in Stalin's day. He was a ruthless man of iron will, and was responsible for so many purges and liquidations that finally nobody in Government employ, from his Kremlin associates down to a village postman, felt safe.
My belief is that the officials not only feared him but were also thoroughly sick of him. He took care that nobody should be " built up " to succeed him in the public eye. It is possible that the members of the new Government now want to behave more like human beings and to get on to reasonable terms with the rest of the world. I have the greatest regard for the Russian people. They remain today the same as in Tolstoi's War and Peace. And there is a strong mystical religious element in their nature which Marxism and Leninism have not eliminated.—Yours faithfully,
ARTHUR MOORE.
69 Brook Street, W.1.
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