Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-22 | Page 4 | Russia Tears off the Mask

j i Russia Tears Off the Mask tITELL ELL well At l last st the benign mask sk of w wELL W lv communism has has' been stripped fr from m the leering face of fascism in Soviet Russia At last the world sees Josef Stalin and the master masterminds minds of Russia for what they really are ruth are ruthless ruth ruth- less les'S lead leaders rs of f a freedom crushing brotherhood of of hating man totalitarian state stated Stalin Hitler and Mussolini the Mussolini the twentieth century three musketeers partners musketeers partners in the crime of the age the murder of the concept of man manthe manthe manthe the individual made i in G Gods God's ds d's image with c certain r tam tain inherent God given rights of freedom of choice hoice of worship of lif of thought and of f speech r What a blow that prospective antiwar pact of Russia and Germany is to those American comm communists and lovers of Soviet Russia who have f for r so long praised the soviet government to the s sl ies while damning unrestrainedly the opposite type fascist governments 1 J They are certainly left out on a limb now with nowhere to turn They and the communist philosophy have received a death blow There 1 I is no longer hope for brotherhood of man true justice ustice and freedom for the individual save in democracy 1 Someone else is left out on a limb too too too- Japan Deserted by her axis pals Japan now feels Russia's hot breath at her heels with no friendly Germany threatening the elongated bear on his southwest quarter In more ways th than n one the announcement c ment that Germany and Russia are about to sign a pact is startling If it is carried through and it seems nothing will prevent its consummation consummation- it may well prove the most m mo momentous md- md event in world history since defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo It may change the whole course course of international affairs upsetting the balance of power and weighting the scales in favor of Germany and Ita Italy y in Europe and perhaps perhaps per per- haps hap against Japan in Asia Such an face about-face on the part of Russia Germany a and d Italy Ialy would have been impossible in another another- day But this is a time of tr tremendous men men- dous pr pressure s' s re politics of subterfuge of knavery and nd juggling in world affairs Anything can happen in this modern run dictator-run world world and and it probably bly will