Foreign News: Jews Up

Next to Josef Stalin the most hotly publicized hero in all Soviet Russia is stocky, thick-mustached Lazare Moiseyevich Kaganovich, a smart, ruthless Jew who is credited with leading and driving the Russian peasantry to sow and reap their bumper harvest (TIME. Jan. 8).

Soviet celebrations now feature super-life-size poster pictures of Comrade Kaganovich almost as big and almost as numerous as those of Comrade Stalin. On the Politbureau of the Communist Party which rules Russia, Stalin is No. 1, Kaganovich No. 2. When the Five-Year Plan was wallowing among blunders Comrade Kaganovich coined an immortal, all-explanatory slogan, “Why wail over broken eggs when we are making an omelet!” Last week this potent Bolshevik let fly at the regime of a state with which Russia is on diplomatic and officially friendly terms, the Third Reich of Jew-baiting Adolf Hitler.

Speaking to the Communist Party Congress in Moscow, Jew Kaganovich said he had received fraternal greetings from the Communists of Berlin. “To them I say fight hard for a Soviet Germany!” he shouted. “We too struggled underground for a long time. We, too, were arrested. Our people, too, were whipped during the Tsarist regime. We fought and we won!”

Slated for the great honor of election to the Party’s Central Committee by the Congress last week was another Jew, roly-poly Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. A few years ago Stalin, after he ousted Jew Leon Trotsky, was markedly opposed to admitting Jews into high Soviet office, but with Kaganovich now his right hand man and Litvinoff wearing the laurels of his triumphant Washington visit. Russia’s Dictator rated last week as benignly pro-Semite.