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Cymbals & Silence. When Bierut and his Warsaw colleagues (Osubka-Morawski, Kowalski and Gomulka) arrived at Moscow's airport, they were greeted by Foreign Commissar Molotov, Vice Commissar Vyshinsky, Politburo brass hats and a vast blare of tubas, trumpets, cymbals and drums...
...halt the deterioration of Sino-Russian relations. No longer could it convincingly be charged that, as Acting. Premier, T. V. Soong was merely a figurehead in the Chungking Government. As Premier, his rank would enable him to negotiate on an equal footing with Prime Minister Winston Churchill or Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov (Soong is also China's Foreign Minister...
Finally, Soviet addicts will not admit that (whatever the Commissar may say) Russian Communism has been so modified that it is practically capitalistic. A factory or collective-farm Commissar may not "own" the factory he rules, but he may derive from it as much wealth and more power than a capitalist tycoon...
...periods . . . faits accomplis [alternating] with tokens of good will." But there will also be "treaties of friendship and mutual aid" which will lead the victim from "collaboration" to "vassalization" so discreetly that an opportune moment for Anglo-American objection will never come. The disillusioned liberal, faced by the advancing Commissar, is likely to turn helplessly to the passive resistance of the Yogi...
...Best of Each? Koestler's own preference, like that of most current prophets, is far less pungent and persuasive than his analysis. He has no wish to obliterate the teachings of the Yogi and the Commissar in toto; he is idealistic enough to hope that the best of each can be joined: a "synthesis of . . . the saint [and] the revolutionary." From the Yogi he would take the values of contemplation, the "inner voice," and reject the "sinning by omission," the passivity that invites rape. From the Commissar he would take a planned, state-controlled economy ("the inevitable next step...