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Wendell Willkie, Hanson W. Baldwin, William C. Bullitt and others who have been slapped down by the Russian press were joined by unexpected company last week. Soundly slapped down by Izvestia were British ex-Pacifist philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad (The Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of the Better World) and Harold Laski, British leftist economist, friend of Russia and sometime White House guest. Said Izvestia: "Meddling advisers." Their offense: signing a British National Peace Council petition urging a "strategy of mercy" toward Germany...
This diplomatic spit & polish was the work of a tireless Frenchwoman, Mme. Simone Blanchard, who had been secretary at the Embassy when Ambassador Bullitt pulled out in 1941. She kept the place ready for instant reoccupancy...
...Bullitt writes that Marshal Tito's Army is 'killing Serbian peasants who are showing anti-Communist feelings with weapons received from America.' By this lie Bullitt gives himself away as a spy who has assimilated the instructions of German Fascist propaganda...
Harder Words. Two days later PM echoed Pravda in a three-page editorial by leftish Max Lerner, who could "not escape the slightly nauseating job of dissecting the rotten cadaver of Bullitt's piece." "Why?" he asked rhetorically. "Because this "is the first time that anyone with a veneer of respectability, in a respectable paper, has uttered a direct call for a war between England and America on one side and Russia on the other...
...Ambassador Bullitt, now a major in the French Army, had uttered no such call. No human being in his senses wants a war between England and America on one side and Russia on the other. No human being in his senses wants war at all. But few sensible men saw much hope of lasting peace anywhere in the world if suspicions could not be aired and beaten out like rugs in the sun-and if communications across boundaries could not be couched in some warmer language than diplomacy, in cooler words than a curse...