AMERICA II
Meanwhile, at the other end of the world, the Emperor also got curious, picked up a personnel file, rolled the few facts around in his mind and ordered: find out more about this Umansky. The object of his interest had written and published anonymously and under a pen-name for ten years, he served faithfully and shaped the thinking of foreign visitors. Bernard Shaw, with his woolly, Father Christmas shock of gray hair, squinted happily in the warm sun under the watchful eye of Konstantin Umansky who supervised his travel: “It’s a great consolation to go to one’s grave knowing that world civilization will be saved… In Russia I was convinced that the Communist system is capable of taking humanity out of its crisis and saving it from complete destruction.”
But the famine? What abo
