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Like the NKVD, U.S. readers would do well to ponder this political autobiography. It is important as history, supplying much material the world never knew or has already forgotten about Russia's internal and external affairs from 1936 to 1939. (Barmine points out that the Purge, and Soviet charges that most of Russia's general staff and high diplomats had committed treason with Germany, was one reason why Britain and France did not push harder for a Russian alliance in 1939.) The book is important as a record of the mechanics of the change whereby socialist states...
Herbert Lehman and his lumbering agency had plenty of faults of their own to answer for. But the nations unwilling to sacrifice scarce food might well ponder the whole question of UNRRA's existence. No relief agency at all might be better than one which promised much but could deliver little...
...Berlin Communist Leader Walter Ulbricht. Said he: the "united front" program for a democratic, anti-fascist Germany should be adopted "from the Oder to the Ruhr, from Mecklenburg to Wiirttemberg." This was far beyond the Russian zone. It was also something for the Potsdam parley (see INTERNATIONAL) to ponder upon...
...hemorrhage, his friends and enemies have tried to explain what manner of man he was. Some may agree with Critic Edmund Wilson's verdict: "In the days of totalitarian states and commercial standardization, he did not hesitate to assert himself as a single, unique human being." Others may ponder Woollcott's raging scream, made when a tactless lecture-chairman referred to his youthful success in female roles: "Look at me, boys and girls; half god, half woman...
Americans inclined to dismiss or shun the looming contest for world power would have done well to ponder the principal questions raised in San Francisco last week...