Principles and Heresies

What Price a Patch of Sand?

The triumphal tour of Anastas Mikoyan brings into startling and excruciating focus the accelerating decay of the American will to resist Communism. Through the length and breadth of American society—by the President and the Vice President, by Senators and Congressmen, by the editorial writers of our great newspapers, by leading industrialists and state and local officials in Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, everywhere he has gone—he has been received like a conquering hero. The few protesting voices—a George Meany, a Congressman Judd, a General Trudeau, the Archibishop of St. Augustine—have only served, like the isolated bands of pickets whose strangled protests have been raised here and there, to point up the slavering goodwill with which the leaders of our country, politicos and capitalists alike, have greeted this architect of slavery.

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Frank S. Meyer

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

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What Price a Patch of Sand?

The triumphal tour of Anastas Mikoyan brings into startling and excruciating focus the accelerating decay of the American will to resist Communism. Through the length and breadth of American society—by the President and the Vice President, by Senators and Congressmen, by the editorial writers of our great newspapers, by leading industrialists and state and local officials in Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, everywhere he has gone—he has been received like a conquering hero. The few protesting voices—a George Meany, a Congressman Judd, a General Trudeau, the Archibishop of St. Augustine—have only served, like the isolated bands of pickets whose strangled protests have been raised here and there, to point up the slavering goodwill with which the leaders of our country, politicos and capitalists alike, have greeted this architect of slavery.