There was more news from Russia last weekor at least what passes for news in Moscowthan there had been in months. Item: for the first time since before the war, Stalin called a Communist Party Congress. Item: the leaders of 464 million Chinese were in Moscow, talking (about something) to the leaders of 207 million Russians. Item: the Kremlin sent another note designed to prevent West Germany's joining the West. The outside world was sure that something was upbut what?
There were two major possibilities, not mutually exclusive:
¶ The stirrings may be caused largely by internal Russian necessity, i.e., a tightening...