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pay tribute to

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Stalin

When Premier Stalin met K. P. Menon, the Indian ambassador in
Moscow, only last month, he expressed his desire that peace might

hot be broken in the world.

This was disclosed to the Indian House of Assembly in Delhi last
Week by Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, who said he had been reading

Menon’s report when the news of
Stalin’s illness came through.

Two parliaments—in India and

aly—adjourned on Friday last
Week as a mark of respect to
Stalin. And the United Nations
General Assembly’s Political Com-
Mittee observed one minute’s sil-
ence, :

Nehru told a crowded and hush-
€d House:

“No single figure has moulded
and influenced the history of
the past 35 years more than

Stalin, He proved himself great
‘In peace and in war. He showed

8n indomitable will and cour-

89e which few possess.”

Some had described him as a
frank and even gentle person, and
Others had described him as hard
and ruthless. “Maybe he had all

ese features in him,” Nehru
Said. “Anyhow, a very great fig-
Ure has passed away-

“I believe that his influence was
€xercised generally in favor of
Peace. When war came he proved

imself a very great warrior. But
from all information that we have
had his influence has been in
favor of peace even in these pres-

ent days of trouble and conflict.”

Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan,
vice ‘president of India, said:

“It was Stalin’s ambition _to
leave his country when he died
in a state not of peril but of
peace. That ambition has been
fulfilled.” ae

Dr. Rajenda Prasad, president
of India, in a message to the So-
viet government referred to Stalin
as “a world figure of outstanding
greatness.” ; '
The Indian Communist. party’s
general secretary, Ajay Ghosh,
said that mankind had lost ‘“its
noblest representative.”
In Rome, Pietro Nenni, leader
of the Italian Socialist party de-
clared: .

“His death, while leaving an
immense void in the Soviet
Union and the world, cannot in-
terrupt the course of Soviet
policy.”

The Italian government express-
ed its condolences to the Soviet

people in the Chamber of Depu-
ties and then the session was sus-
pended fof an hour as a sign of

respect. .
Togliatti told the chamber: ‘My

On Friday last week the first of hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens passed through the
Hall of Columns in the House of Trade Unions where the body of Joseph Stalin lay on a bier massed

with flowers.

bitter cold to pay a last tribute to the great Soviet leader.

Here are shown part of the unending lines of mourners who stood for hours in the

soul is in anguish today at the
death of my teacher, my compan-
ion, and my friend. Our century
will bear the name of Stalin. And
the fight against fascism will car-
ry his name.”

In Paris, the French Communist
party ended its national confer-
ence and delegates returned to
their headquarters “to take all
the necessary decisions after the
cruel blow against all the nations
and all the workers.”

“We have lost Comrade Stalin
but Stalinism will live and last
eternally,’ the party’s central
committee said in a proclamation.

The French president sent a
message of condolence to the So-
viet government.

In Vienna, the conference on
social services called by the World
Federation of Trades Unions was
adjourned.

Louis Sailiant, WFTU general
secretary, declared:

“The World Federation of
Trades Unions, loyal to the spirit
of working-class internationalism,
of which Comrade Stalin was the
standard bearer, calls on the
workers of the world to close their
ranks and to strengthen still fur-
ther their fraternal links and their
complete solidarity with the coun-
tries in which the workers are
masters of their destiny.”

In Australia, the leader of the
Labor Opposition, Dr. Evatt, said

that it can never be forgotten
that “Stalin stood before the
world as the embodiment of Rus-
sia’s indomitable will to win in
the struggle against Hitlerism.”

External Affairs Minister Lester
B. Pearson of G@anada, president
of the United Nations General
Assembly, said:

“With his passing the United
Nations has lost one of its found-
ers and the Soviet peoples the
man who was their indomitable
leader in the common struggle
against Nazi aggression.”

Prime Minister Holland of New
Zealand stated:

“We remember. him today and
honor him as one of the great
war leaders.”

e e 9
Official announcement of Premier Stalin’s death

‘Immortal name of Stalin will live torever among mankind’

MOSCOW

The following official announce-

_ Ment of Premier Joseph Stalin’s
death was issued here by the
central committee of the Com-
. ™Munist Party of - the ‘Soviet
Union, the Council of Ministers
and the Supreme Soviet, to all
Members of the Communist
Party and to all working people.

Comrades and friends, with pro-
found grief we have to inform
you that Premier Stalin, secretary
Of the central committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet

nion, passed away at 9.50 p.m.
On March 5. The heart of the
Comrade-in-arms and continuer of
Senius of Lenin’s cause, of the
Wise leader and teacher of the
Communist party and the Soviet
People, J. V. Stalin, ceased to beat.

The name of Stalin is boundless-
ly dear to our party, to the Soviet
People, to the workers of the
Whole world. Together with Lenin,
Comrade Stalin created the mighty
Party of Communists, and temper-
ed it.

Together with Lenin, Comrade
Stalin was the inspirer and leader
Of the great October Socialist Rev-
Olution, the founder of the first
Socialist state in the world.

Continuing the immortal cause
of Lenin, Comrade Stalin led the
Soviet people to the epochal vic-
tory of socialism in our country.
Comrade Stalin led our country to
Victory over fascism in the Second
World War, which fundamentally
Changed the entire international
Situation.

Comrade Stalin armed the party
and the whole people with the
8reat and clear program of build-
ing Communism in the USSR.

e The death of Comrade Stalin,
Who gaye his entire life to selfless
Service of the great cause of com-
Munism, is the heaviest loss for
the party, the working people of

the Soviet Union and the whole
world.

News of the decease of Com-
rade Stalin will cause deep anguish
in the hearts of the workers, col-
lective farmers, intellectuals and
all the working people of our
country, in the hearts of the war-
riors of our valorous army and
navy, in the hearts of millions of
working people in all countries
of the world.

In these mournful days, all the
peoples of our country are unit-
ing still closer in the great frater-
nal family under the tried and
tested leadership of the Commun-
ist party created and reared by
Lenin and Stalin.

The Soviet people have undivid-
ed trust in and are imbued with
fervent love for their own Com-
munist party because they know
that the supreme law of all the

The body of Premier Joseph Stalin lies in the Hall of Columns
in Moscow's House of Trade Unions. :

activities of the party is to serve
the interests of the people.

The workers, collective farmers,
Soviet intellectuals, all the work-
ing people of our country unde-
viatingly follow-the policy charted
by our party, which corresponds
to the vital interests of the work-
ing people and is directed at the
further consolidation of the might
of our socialist homeland.

The correctness of this policy
of the Communist party has been
tested by decades of struggle. It
has led ‘the working people of the
Soviet land to the history-making
victories of socialism.

Inspired by this policy, the peo-
ples of the Soviet Union, under
the leadership of the party, are
confidently marching forward to
new successes in Communist con-
struction in our country.

The working people of our
country know that the future im-
provement in the material well-
being of all sections of the popu-
lation—workers, collective farm-
ers, intellectuals —the maximum
satisfaction of the constantly ris-
ing material and cultural require-
ments of the whole of society,
always was and is the object of
particular concern of the Com-
munist party and the Soviet gov-
ernment. ; ;

The Soviet people know that’

the defensive capacity and the
might of the Soviet state are de-
yeloping and growing stronger,
that the party is strengthening
in every way the Soviet army,
navy and security organs with
the object of constantly enhanc-
ing our preparedness for giving
a crushing rebuff to any aggres-
sor.

Dear comrades and friends, oyr
Communist party is the great di-
recting, guiding force of the So-
viet people in the building. of
communism,

The adamantine unity and mon-
olithic cohesion of the party’s
ranks are the chief requisite of
the party’s strength and might.

It is our task to safeguard the
unity of the party as the apple of
the eye, to bring up the Commun-
ists as active political fighters for
carrying out the policy and de-
cisions of the party, to consolidate
still more the bonds of the party
with all working people, with the
workers, collective farmers, the
intelligentsia, for in this insepar-
able bond with the people lies the
strength and invincibility of our
party.

The party regards as one of its
major tasks to educate the Com-
munists and all the working peo-
ple in the spirit of lofty political
vigilance, in the spirit of irrecon-
cilability and staunchness in the
struggle against internal and ex-
ternal enemies.

The central committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union, the Council of Ministers
of the USSR and the presidium
of the Supreme Soviet of the
USSR addressing in these mourn-
ful days the party and the people
express firm confidence that the
party and all the working people
of our homeland will rally stil]
closer round the central commit-
tee and the Soviet government,
will mobolize all their forces and
creative energies for the great
cause of building communism in
our country. :

The immortal name of Stalin
will live for ever in the hearts of
the Soviet people and of all pro-
gressive mankind.

Long live the great all-conquer-
ing teaching of Marx-Engels-Lenin-
Stalin! Long live our mighty
Socialist Homeland! Long live
our heroic Soviet People! Long
live the great Communist Party of
the Soviet Union!

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