Brooks Atkinson, New York Times drama critic turned foreign correspondent, is an honest, undogmatic, down-to-earth New Englander just back from ten months in Moscow. In three Times articles this week, Atkinson appraised Russia today in a report so shrewd, balanced and clear-focused that it promptly became a major guidepost to U.S. understanding of the country most important for Americans to understand. Some excerpts:
In the attempt to establish workable relations with the Government of the Soviet Union we have to abandon the familiar concepts of friendship. Friendship in the sense of intimate...
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