Mohandas K. Gandhi
BY LANCE MORROW
To which of his fellowmen might a discerning citizen of the
world point as Man of the Year?
Most worldwide concern of the year was the Depression, its
U.S. focus Wall Street. Down there no man carried a bigger load,
none fought the Boojum more effectively than Albert Henry
Wiggin, sagacious, resourceful, confidence-inspiring board
chairman of Chase National Bank. But other great bankers carried
great loads.
In winning the four major golf championships, Robert Tyre
Jones Jr. was easily Sportsman of the year. The Nobel Prize
winners, especially the onetime newshawk Sinclair Lewis who is
the first U.S. litterateur to receive the accolade, were Men of
the Year. But the work for which they were honored was done in
other years.
Potential Statesmen of the Year were Prime Minister James
Ramsay MacDonald and those who helped him make the London Naval
Treaty. But they failed in what they tried to achieve--reduction
of five navies--and had to compromise on limitation of three.
Surely one Statesman of the Year was Josef Vissarionovitch
Dzhugashvili, called Stalin (pronounced Stahl-yn), Dictator of
Russia. By "dumping" (or its practical equivalents) Stalin has
sown uneasiness among "the enemy." With his ruthless Five-Year
Plan he has wiped Unemployment from the map of Russia (as Scot
MacDonald could not do in Britain). Finally Stalin, who for
years ruled Russia obscurely as a "political boss" (General
Secretary of the Russian Communist Party), has just thrown off
this mask, assumed public office for the first time during his
dictatorship, and proved who is absolute master of some
150,000,000 people by kicking into oblivion their nominal Prime
Minister, luckless Comrade Alexey Rykov.
