Books: The Voice of China

SOVIET RUSSIA IN CHINA (392 pp.]—Chiang Kai-shek — Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ($5).

One of history's grimmest ironies is that the Communists' lying assurances of their devotion to peace, democracy and progress have always found eager believers, while the Reds' truthful pinpointing of their own goals has been blandly ignored. Until it was too late, only a handful of people ever took seriously Lenin's statement that "the shortest route from Moscow to Paris is via Peiping and Calcutta." Yet who can today deny that he meant just what he said?

No man has...

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