Enough of This Nonsense!

It is a military axiom that there is deadly danger inherent either in underestimating or in overestimating the enemy. Judging by the reactions of the American press, and of responsible American leaders generally, to the two major events of midsummer in the Soviet world—the publication of the draft of the new Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the putative multiple circumnavigation of the globe by Major Titov—we are managing the remarkable feat of underestimating and overestimating the Communist enemy at one and the same time.

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Frank S. Meyer

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

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It is a military axiom that there is deadly danger inherent either in underestimating or in overestimating the enemy. Judging by the reactions of the American press, and of responsible American leaders generally, to the two major events of midsummer in the Soviet world—the publication of the draft of the new Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the putative multiple circumnavigation of the globe by Major Titov—we are managing the remarkable feat of underestimating and overestimating the Communist enemy at one and the same time.

Meyer