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...unite countries of the West. Stalin's choice would be the candidate who would tend to withdraw from the burdens of a vigorous foreign policy, provided that one of the candidates would be that kind of president. It is almost tragically paradoxical that Stalin's moves on the international chessboard can make Americans vote the way he desires, even though his choice would inevitably be the worse one for the American people...
...steel figures add up to this: Russia has not enough steel to fight a long war involving major ground action. That is why Germany's Ruhr is a key piece on the chessboard of world strategy. Western Germany is now producing almost as much steel as the whole vast U.S.S.R. Transfer of the Ruhr capacity from Western to Russian control would change the world strategic picture more decisively than any other territorial grab the U.S.S.R. could make...
Looking at the whole chessboard, Stalin & Co. saw that the anti-Communist strength of Western Europe was building up dramatically, thanks to EGA and MAP (Military Assistance Program). The efforts of the European and U.S. Communist Parties to sabotage this buildup had failed. It was the Kremlin's turn to move, and the move was obvious and long-prepared-Formosa...
...Truth. Sol Levitas, who has been executive editor of the New Leader since 1930, is a slight, mustached man with a melancholy air and beseeching eyes, enough patience to sit for hours over a chessboard or fishing line, and enough ready wit to cajole or browbeat articles out of reluctant writers. Whenever they are so bold as to bring up the subject of money, Levitas tartly replies: "Don't expect to profit from the truth." To help pay for printing what he considers the truth, Levitas periodically wangles sizable cash contributions from sympathetic conservatives and such labor leaders...
...inability to decide what can and should be done. If the Chinese Communists are illiterate in the language of international diplomacy and decency, we will have to draw them a picture that they can understand. The important thing now is not to make a clever move on the chessboard of chicane, but to resolve upon a rescue...