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...Iron Curtain." The congress was not all repentance. Pavel Yudin of the Soviet Union delivered a morale-building backslap: "The Central Bolshevik Committee greets the Italian Communist Party, which . . . deserves to be ranked as the vanguard of democratic progress. . . ." For ten minutes the Italian delegates roared: "Viva Stalin!" France's Maurice Thorez led the rhetorical rowdedow. Cried he: "The imperialist reactionary forces of America . . . have instituted gangster methods of tear gas as the first step to war. . . ." (So eloquent was Thorez that even listeners who did not understand French had tears in their eyes.) Cried Bulgaria's Wladimir...
...VICTIM (294 pp.)-Saul Bellow-Vanguard...
...have crystallized: on the one extreme the U.S.S.R.... on the other side the United States of America and England. . . . The Truman-Marshall Plan is only a farce, a European branch of the [U.S.'s] general world plan of political expansion. . . . The Communist parties should place themselves in the vanguard of the opposition...
...Francisco this week would come the vanguard of the dead from the Pacific: 2,992 from Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Peleliu and Iwo Jima.* From Africa in a few weeks would begin another funeral procession. Soon every U.S. city and town, almost every crossroads hamlet, would have a fresh reminder of the price of peace...
LUCKY FORWARD (424 pp.)-Robert S. Allen-Vanguard...