National Affairs: Thanks, No

Something called the World Congress of Partisans of Peace was poised in Europe last week, ready to fly to the U.S. and demand that Congress reduce its war budget and prohibit the manufacture of atomic bombs.

The WCPPers were led by Pablo Picasso, the world's best-known living painter and a prattling Communist even though his art is denounced by Moscow. They included the world's best-known clerical apologist for Communism, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury Cathedral, and other well-known Europeans (among them a gaggle of scientists) whose political hues,-ยค according...

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