The Protracted Conflict

Herewith random comments on the late unpleasantness in Poland:

1) After each explosion in the Soviet Empire we are invariably told by the experts that this is the last gasp; the people will now realize the regime is stabilized and unassailable; all but a few eccentrics will henceforth submit, and do the best they can under the Communist dispensation. Therefore, add the experts—in Washington as in London, Paris, Rome and let us not forget Bonn —therefore it is time for us to face reality (ah, Reality, how many political sins are committed in thy name!), recognize that Communism is here to stay, drop the leftovers from the “policies of strength,” stop any remaining anti-Communist nonsense, and come to friendly, profitable terms with the Commu. . . pardon, socialist governments of the Eastern bloc.

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Herewith random comments on the late unpleasantness in Poland:

1) After each explosion in the Soviet Empire we are invariably told by the experts that this is the last gasp; the people will now realize the regime is stabilized and unassailable; all but a few eccentrics will henceforth submit, and do the best they can under the Communist dispensation. Therefore, add the experts—in Washington as in London, Paris, Rome and let us not forget Bonn —therefore it is time for us to face reality (ah, Reality, how many political sins are committed in thy name!), recognize that Communism is here to stay, drop the leftovers from the “policies of strength,” stop any remaining anti-Communist nonsense, and come to friendly, profitable terms with the Commu. . . pardon, socialist governments of the Eastern bloc.