Unbiased .observers of the Soviet Union had long believed, on inconclusive evidence, that official statistics put out by the U.S.S.R. were heavily watered to create an inflated picture of Soviet industrial growth. It remained for a Harvard man to do something conclusive about it.
Economics Professor Seymour Edwin Harris asked five experts to make an analysis of Soviet balance sheets. Each tackled the task individually, using different methods, concentrating on different aspects of Soviet economy. Last week,
Dr. Harris made known the highlights of the five reports.*
From them emerged one solid, unanimous conclusion: the world power potential of the Soviet Union has been...
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