Foreign News: Genial Blackmail

Edgar Ansel Mowrer, political columnist and author (Germany Puts the Clock Back), is a left of center liberal who is no Russophobe. But he has been watching recent events in Europe with a deepening distaste. Last week, in a syndicated column (Press Alliance) headed "Accepting the Challenge," he tartly told the U.S. that the time had come to stand up to Russia at the next Big Three meeting (see U.S. AT WAR). Said Mowrer: "Marshal Joseph Stalin's hasty recognition of the Lublin Moscow-manufactured Polish Committee as the Provisional Government of Poland is a challenge flung not so much at the...

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