70 Year Magazine Archive

If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Moscow

by Priscilla L. Buckley

Wherein a group of interested Americans takes a whirlwind tour behind the shredding Iron Curtain and discovers how much has changed—and how much has not.

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HALFWAY through NATIONAL review’s ten-day, five-capital tour of Europe, it is suggested that I do a running account of the trip, to go along with Bill Buckley’s columns, plus accounts by Wick A1lison and John O’Sullivan [in “From the Editor,” p. 61, and portions of a galvanizing interview with Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov. I feel a bit like Jean Kerr’s six-year-old son returning from kindergarten one day. In tears, he reported that he had been cast as Adam in the school play. But wasn’t that a good part? his mother asked. “No, no, no,” sobbed the boy. “The snake has all the lines.”

UNITED KINGDOM

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