THE NATION: Lesson

For any who still needed a lesson in the ways and meaning of Russian Communism, it was a week of disjointed but sobering education. Bits & pieces of the text were scattered everywhere.

One chapter was to be found in Moscow, where Russian obduracy had blocked all attempts to relieve the siege of Berlin (see INTERNATIONAL). Another appeared in the testimony before a congressional committee of a onetime U.S. Communist, who declared that she had been bribed and decorated by Moscow for spying on the U.S. while the two countries were wartime allies. In London,...

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