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...usual, L'Humanité was a day late with the news. The non-Communist Paris press had it from the government, which had it from its ambassador in Moscow, that French Communist Laurent Casanova had asked for four visas: one for himself, one for Maurice Thorez, one for Thorez' wife Jeannette Vermeersch, and one for a secretary. It was two years and five months since French Communist Leader Maurice Thorez had been struck down with brain hemorrhage and whisked off to Moscow for treatment; ever since, the air had been filled with reports of what wonders Soviet medicine...
This necessary policy is difficult and dangerous. The danger will increase if the Communists actually carry out some commitments, and thereby again delude Americans and others with the notion of Communist "sincerity." At the moment, the non-Communist world is fairly well united, but it was welded in the intense heat of stubborn and reckless Communist aggression. If the heat is removed, will the weld hold? Or will there be a revival of French neutralism, British intellectual anti-Americanism, and another rise of Communist fellow-traveling...
Marx believed that capitalism would destroy itself by wars between capitalist states and by other "contradictions." Stalin, shortly before his death, emphasized his belief in the same proposition. Now the U.S.S.R., by easing the Communist heat, is acting on a basic Marxist belief, and hoping for disunity in the non-Communist world. It may get that disunity on Korea, or on Germany, or on many another issue...
...What the non-Communist world had never thought to hear admitted, the leaders of world Communism last week openly confessed. The Kremlin itself published proof positive that Soviet "justice" is based on torture, that Soviet "truth" can err. Of all the recent curious shifts of wind over Moscow's vast Red Square, this was the strangest...
Because the Communists can still use "great artist Picasso," though none of his 53 paintings in Moscow are allowed to be seen, self-criticism was not asked of him. But it was not expected that he should be angry. Said he, when interviewed by a non-Communist newsman: "You do not bawl out people who send you condolences, and it is customary to thank people who send wreaths, even if the flowers are somewhat faded. I sketched what I felt, since I have never seen Stalin. I put all my efforts into producing a resemblance. Apparently it was not liked...