Andrei Vishinsky likes to tell the world that U.S. capitalists are warmongers. A large contingent of clerks in Moscow is kept busy plowing through U.S. publications to supply Vishinsky and other Soviet statesmen with evidence in support of that charge. The other day, Vishinsky fell for his own propaganda.
In his violent anti-U.S. speech at U.N.'s General Assembly (TIME, Oct. 4), Vishinsky cited a certain map as evidence that U.S. capitalism is plotting war. Said Vishinsky: "The map published by the Esso Company of New York is of ... insolently arrogant and war-inciting nature...