Apes, Lies, Gate

For close on 1,000 days keen, witty Jan Otmar Berson has been the hard-working Moscow correspondent of Poland's authoritative, official Gazeta Polska and P. A. T.. the official Polish News Agency.

Last week he filed a crisp account of mating between humans and apes on a Soviet experimental farm, adding as a snapper: "The purpose seems to be to improve the next generation of the Soviet population." That done, Jan Otmar Berson dropped in on one of the concluding sessions of the Communist Congress for promoting the null Revolution of the World Proletariat. The Comintern's final act was to revive the post of Secretary General last held in 1926 by tousle-haired Grigory Zinoviev, "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," whose career abruptly ended when Joseph Stalin decided to soft-pedal World Revolution for a time. As forecast, Bulgarian Communist George Dimitroff, adder-tongued Red hero of the Nazi trial which failed to convict Communists of burning down the German Reichstag, was chosen last week Secretary General of the Comintern (TIME, July 29). He was acclaimed with shouts of "Long live Dimitroff, our wise, courageous Helmsman!" Taking the helm of World Revolution, George Dimitroff prepared to give it a new twist. In explicit advice to the Congress of 400 Communist leaders from 52 countries, he urged "cunning" and "Trojan horse tactics." Hereafter Communists are to insinuate themselves quietly into trade unions, religious bodies and social groups. They are to lay aside the violent, blatant Red methods of the past, mask their anti-religion and spread Communist doctrine in the guise of Socialism, Liberalism or New Deals among the muddleheaded of all lands.

Such "cunning" being the advice and command of Moscow last week, Gazeta Polska's correspondent closed his report on the Comintern by remarking: "It is the most lying institution in a country which has a record for lying."

Scarcely had Gazeta Polska printed this comment on the deceit urged by Helmsman Dimitroff than the Soviet Government gave Jan Otmar Berson 72 hours in which to get out of Russia. Thundered the official Soviet newsorgan Pravda: "When some swindler takes advantage of Soviet hospitality and, despite warnings, dares to insult repeatedly and insolently the dignity of the Soviet people, then he is shown the gate."

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