A thousand international "partisans of peace" descended on Moscow's Dom Soyuzov (House of Trade Unions) last week. Before a red plush backdrop bearing giant portraits of Lenin and Stalin, they acted out a Kremlin command performance of a familiar comedy.
The same old cast was on hand. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Red Dean of Canterbury, proudly fondled the immense gold cross dangling on his chest—a cherished gift from the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei. "To talk of peace in the Soviet Union," said the Dean sanctimoniously, "is like bringing one's samovar to Tula."* Italy's table-thumping left-wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni furiously denounced...
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