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Show Stalin's 'Man Friday' i V. Molotov, Foreign Commissar Soviet Rusiia is currently look- 1 Ing at the world through the pince-nec glasses that perch on the nose of her kewpie-faeed foreign commissar-premier. Via-cheslav Via-cheslav Mikhailovtch MoJotov. His recent harangue at the democracies for prolonging Europe's Eu-rope's war and the "war of nerves" clamped agslnst Finland for refusing Russian military demands, de-mands, throws light on the personality, per-sonality, background and outlook of the man who since last May has been directing affairs at the soviet foreign office. Many Informed persons In the Soviet Union now consider Molo-tov Molo-tov the logical succesor to SUlin, now approaching 60. , Molotov is Stalin's alter ego. Forty-nine years of age and son of a clerk, he won his spurs by becoming a revolutionist at 17 and a Siberian exile in his twenties. twen-ties. Ever since he has been stumping' for soviet "ideology" in general and Joseph Stalin In particular. par-ticular. Careful Creaming In personal appearance he la not unlike the late Theodore Roosevelt He Is pale, rather thick-set with heavy shoulders, and aeems out of place among most of his collesgues because of his Anglo-aristocratic bearing and careful attention to grooming. groom-ing. Like Rykov, whom he re--ptaced as ftialrman-otttte coun' cil of peoples' commissars, he speaks with a noticeable stammer. stam-mer. During my recent trip to the Soviet Union, I found his picture ..everywhere, often beside those of Lenin and Stalin. Sometimes entire en-tire top-stories of soviet office buildings are covered by canvas can-vas poster-portraits of the soviet quadruinvirate: Leinin, Stalin, Molotov and Voroshilov, commissar com-missar for defense. The foreign commissar Is popular pop-ular and personably capable, but is destined to remain a figurehead figure-head so long as Stalin Is master in the Kremlin. Close observers of long experience in the caplta.1 refer to him as the Georgian's "good man Friday." For 18 years he has been the immediate assistant of Stalin and -bas escaped the successive purges which have depleted the ranks of the eld bolsheviks. , As new master at the foreign office twhlch has known only three changes In its leadership In the last 21 years Chicherin, Lit-vlnov Lit-vlnov and Molotov) he is one of the youngest foreign ministers in. Europe; speaks German and French fluently. Molotov is hardly known out-aide out-aide of Russia, but his wife, now head of the soviet cosmetics trust, visited the United States in 1938. On March 22. 1939, at a plenary- meeting of the central committee of the communist party, Molotov was elected to the powerful inner political bureau of the party which makes decisions followed by the government. In addition to being premier and chairman of the council of peoples' commissars, member of the political bureau and commissar commis-sar of foreign affairs, Molotov stands next to Stalin atop the pyramid of some 2.400,000 communist com-munist party members who have special privileges In helping to guide the soviet "democracy" the only legalized political party in the U. S. S. R. Author of Lindbergh Attack 1 1 The name of V. Molotev is af fixed to every decree in the Soviet Union. First attention was called to him outside Russia when he denounced Colonel Charles Lindbergh as a "paid liar" for alleged al-leged slurs against the efficiency of Russia's air-arm. Second time was when he shocked most of the world by signing, together with Herr von Ribbentrop, the Soviet-German pact Like many another of his compatriots, com-patriots, the premier is using a name of his own choosing. He was born Viacheslav Scriabin. As a young revolutionist. In and out of exile three times, he adopted many aliases. He preferred pre-ferred Molotov to Zvenov, Proa-tota. Proa-tota. Riabin and Mikhallov, so he kept it. r' v ; ' --: "V- J Viaeheslav M. Molotov; Through his eyes, Stalin looks eut an the world. I |