Of Betrayal and Shame

First there were the patriotic “agrarian reformers” of China; then there was Tito; now there is Gomulka. One would think we would have learned that, manifold though the changes be, they are all rung on the same tune. It is to combat the willful and suicidal self-deception that prevents us from seeing what is going on before our eyes, that Slobodan M. Draskovich has written Tito, Moscow’s Trojan Horse (Regnery, $5.00).

Although his book is in substance a thorough examination of the phenomenon of Tito and Yugoslavian Communism, his basic concern is not with it but with Communism in the period of “Communism in more than one country”; that is, in the period we are living in, when “national Communism” has become the preferred technique of the international Communist movement to “confuse, deceive, weaken and destroy the West.”

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Frank S. Meyer

Frank S. Meyer was a senior editor of National Review.

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First there were the patriotic “agrarian reformers” of China; then there was Tito; now there is Gomulka. One would think we would have learned that, manifold though the changes be, they are all rung on the same tune. It is to combat the willful and suicidal self-deception that prevents us from seeing what is going on before our eyes, that Slobodan M. Draskovich has written Tito, Moscow’s Trojan Horse (Regnery, $5.00).

Although his book is in substance a thorough examination of the phenomenon of Tito and Yugoslavian Communism, his basic concern is not with it but with Communism in the period of “Communism in more than one country”; that is, in the period we are living in, when “national Communism” has become the preferred technique of the international Communist movement to “confuse, deceive, weaken and destroy the West.”