PANOPLIES: Medals from Stalin

A special committee picked by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) last week announced the seven winners of the new International Stalin Peace Prizes—gold medals bearing the image of Joseph Stalin and cash bounties of 100,000 rubles each (about $25,000). In the order of precedence:

France’s Professor FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT-CURIE, 51, veteran Communist dismissed a year ago from the post of High Commissioner for Atomic Energy, now president of the Communist World Peace Council.

China’s Madame SUN YATSEN, 60, widow of the founder of the Chinese (Kuomintang) Republic, sister-in-law and political foe of Chiang Kaishek, joined the Red regime at Peking as one of its showpiece non-Communist vice chairmen.

Britain’s DR. HEWLETT JOHNSON, 77, Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, indefatigable admirer of Stalin and all Soviet works, speaker at Red peace propaganda congresses everywhere.

France’s Madame EUGENIE COTTON, 69, Communist fellow traveler, physicist, president of the Communist-sponsored Women’s International Democratic Federation, delegate at Red peace rallies in New York and Europe.

The U.S.’s Right Rev. ARTHUR W. MOULTON, 77, retired Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Utah, listed by the U.S. House of Representatives Un-American Activities Committee as affiliated with five to ten Communist-front organizations. Commenting on the award, Moulton said he was gratified, but would not take the prize money: “The only reward I want in working for peace is peace.” He added: “But … if America goes to war, I go with her.”

North Korea’s Mrs. PAK DEN-AI, seasoned underground operator against the Japanese, president of her country’s Communist Women’s League, speechmaker at Asiatic congresses vilifying the U.S.

Mexico’s General HERIBERTO JARA, 71, old revolutionary who fought Porfirio Diaz, former Minister of the Navy (1940-46), delegate to Red peace congresses. Like Moulton, Jara turned down the cash. —

A Red peace congress is scheduled to open in India on May 11. Last week Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s government refused entry visas for Stalin Peace Prizewinners Joliot-Curie and the “Red Dean” of Canterbury, and for the U.S.’s Paul Robeson, who, surprisingly, had not qualified for the medal from Moscow.