Would it actually be possible for the U.S., as many Americans believe, to gain Russia's trust by conciliatory moves? Recently, as this contention became more and more publicized, it was examined by an American who has concerned himself long and closely with the U.S.S.R. TIME herewith presents his prognosis and prescription:
People who think that the golden touch of their particular personality and the warmth of their sympathy would modify, to some important degree, the actions of the Soviet Government, are not only flying in the face of some of the most basic and unshakable of Russian realities. They are insulting the...