Some U.S. left-wingers who had eagerly grabbed up Russia's cause at war's end were beginning to suspect they had caught a bear by the tail. In Manhattan's fiercely leftist PM last week, Author-Editorialist Saul K. Padover, a militant member of the intellectual Left, tried to let go. Wrote he:
"In a generation perhaps the Russian people may have enough consumer goods to be able to afford the Nazi-like luxury, if they so desire, of an aggressive war. . . ."
"The internal situation in the Soviet Union is something else again. Russia is a dictatorship which no democrat can condone and no...
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