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After V-E day, Smith returned to the U.S. in 1946, laden with honors. But his public life was far from over: that same year, Harry Truman appointed Smith U.S. Ambassador to Russia. In that cold war outpost, Smith was a frustrated forward observer. Emerging from the Kremlin one day, he snapped to reporters: "Molotov, three hours. No Stalin. No comment." But his analysis of the Russians was shrewd. The Communists, said Beedle Smith, "have read Von Clausewitz and they believe that war is merely politics transferred to another sphere...
Thus, as in November 1958, the West by implication again faced a six-month "deadline" on the security of its travel and supply routes to its isolated West Berlin outpost; for, as Nikita put it, "after the treaty, any countries wishing to maintain ties in West Berlin will have to reach agreement with the government of the German Democratic Republic." Ominously but somewhat ambiguously, he added: "If any country should violate the peace and cross the borders of others -by land, air or water-it will assume full responsibility for the consequences of aggression and will be dealt the necessary...
...know better-are saying that integration of the races is inevitable." As for the rest of the world ("the whiter they are the better the country"), his newspaper sees it in black and white. One recent editorial was titled "Who Cares What Asia Thinks?" Another, on South Africa, "that outpost of Western civilization," sympathized with white cops "whose lives were endangered by hordes of savages in modern dress." When Kenya's Tom Mboya visited the U.S. in 1959 ("A busy year for touring cutthroats"), the paper dismissed him as "a man only lately come down out of a tree...
...some cases-was adultery. Fornication was punished by exile or drowning. In the four years between 1542 and 1546, there were 58 executions and 76 banishments in a city of about 20,000. Yet to those with a taste for it, Geneva under Calvin seemed almost like an earthly outpost of the Kingdom of God. The famed Scottish reformer, John Knox, lived there for three years and called it "the most perfect school of Christ that ever was in the earth since the days of the Apostles...
...episode-that it is more honorable to betray one's party than one's fellow man-underlies The Fox and the Camellias, though Silone gives it a new twist. The setting is a Swiss farm near Brissago, where the novel's hero, Daniele, maintains a secret outpost for the Italian anti-Fascist underground, as Silone himself did in the '30s and early '40s. The farm is really Daniele's first loyalty, and his teen-aged daughter Silvia is his chief joy. Amid the cycle of the seasons, Silone fashions a triptych of father, daughter...