POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: It Will Clear the Air

"Churchill," said the London Daily Worker last week, "has returned to his anti-Communist vomit." What Churchill had returned to was his Munich-era assertion that appeasement will not buy peace. The question had a new urgency in March of 1946, as spring girdled the earth with the possibility of military action and the probability of fresh diplomatic crises.

Armies, navies and air forces maneuvered from Dairen to Labrador; Russia countered a U.S. charge of undue meddling in Manchuria with a charge that the U.S. had done the same in Bulgaria. Moscow again claimed that...

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