U.S. At War: Mississippi to the Volga

It was like a game of Consequences. Eric Johnston, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, met 100 Soviet trade experts in Moscow. He said:

"Gentlemen, I ask you to please realize how completely our American Communists have been wasting their time. Not long ago an American research institution asked a large number of people all over the United States: 'To what social class do you think you belong?' Most organized wage earners replied that in their opinion they belong to the middle class. . . .How can the American Communists make a proletarian...

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