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tention the Soviets pay to Western concern with humane and orderly conditions, or, as we say in the age of Jimmy Carter, with “standing up, from time to time, against violations of human rights.” Then as now, Moscow couldn’t care less, as long as these protests do not interfere with the expansion of Soviet power.

A future historian of, say, the Helsinki accords might well refer his readers to the history of the Potsdam Protocol as Mr. de Zayas has written it—a history of the conning of the West, by itself as by its enemy, into supporting Soviet crimes and Soviet domination. □

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tention the Soviets pay to Western concern with humane and orderly conditions, or, as we say in the age of Jimmy Carter, with “standing up, from time to time, against violations of human rights.” Then as now, Moscow couldn’t care less, as long as these protests do not interfere with the expansion of Soviet power.

A future historian of, say, the Helsinki accords might well refer his readers to the history of the Potsdam Protocol as Mr. de Zayas has written it—a history of the conning of the West, by itself as by its enemy, into supporting Soviet crimes and Soviet domination. □