Ominous news rumbled around the world. Soviet Russia had formally declared war on U.S. and British "imperialism".
Communist Party delegates had met in Warsaw in September. There they had, in effect, re-established the Communist International. There they issued a "manifesto" which was a clear and brassy call to every Communist in every land:
"Two opposite political lines have crystallized: on the one extreme the U.S.S.R.... on the other side the United States of America and England. . . . The Truman-Marshall Plan is only a farce, a European branch of the [U.S.'s] general world plan of political expansion. . . . The...
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