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...torn by constant doubt, often reflects the opinion of the last man to have his ear. Martin is no party liner, but since the magazine's unofficial policy board is made up of such anti-Communists as Labor M.P. Richard Grossman and such proCommunists as Alexander Werth (who is currently a Titoist). the editorial policy is as changeable as Martin. Said one British Socialist last week: "In its fantastic inconsistencies, the New Statesman distills the spiritual agony of the British intelligentsia...
...British public, the Manchester Guardian's Russophile Correspondent Alexander Werth reported the Lemin lecture with warm overtones of "You see-they may still get to like us." Any criticisms of the Empire the professor may have made were offered "more in sorrow than in anger," explained Werth. "Without explicitly saying that the British Empire was a good thing, Dr. Lemin suggested [that] it was a complicated political organism which was evolving in the right direction...
...Yanks Are Coming! In other articles, Werth elaborated the mellow motif: "There are today perceptible signs of a desire for rapprochement with Britain. . . . The phrase 'the Anglo-Americans' is no longer favored. ... An ignorant old wife will tell you she knows for certain that Hitler is in America plotting. . . . In comparison, Britain is quite harmless...
Whatever his chief target may have been, Generalissimo Joseph Stalin's peace talk, like a swivel-mounted machine gun, raked world affairs from a variety of interesting angles last week. The talk consisted of answers to nine apparently prearranged questions by London Sunday Times Russophile Correspondent Alexander Werth...
...Werth was not permitted to file his story until Radio Moscow broadcast it. That put the -whole world press ahead of Werth's weekly paper (it has no connection with the daily London Times'), which had to wait five full days before printing his "scoop...