Dictatorship Breeds Corruption [1951]

Although no publishing correspondence is extant, it is likely that 54 was commissioned by Colin Wintle, a "journalist and literary agent" with political warfare experience from Nazi-occupied Europe. It is still possible that the Russians may hold their hand and decide to develop peacefully the vast resources that they now control. On genetics-a subject of great practical importance to Russia, since it is capable of increasing the area over which wheat can profitably be grown-Stalin has chosen to take over an antiquated opinion derived ultimately from Lamarck through the medium of Samuel Butler and Bernard Shaw. It will probably be possible, by means of atom bombs, to set the oil fields upon which Russia depends ablaze, and destroy Russian supplies for the duration, if not for ever.