The Third World War

Down Stalin, Up Lenin, ? ? Trotsky

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make optimists. Such, at any rate, might seem to be the rule covering the response of the Liberal West to the new strategic turn of Bolshevik Moscow. No one is quite sure just what the turn means. But whatever it is, it is a good thing — i.e., good from the Western standpoint. It loosens, liberalizes, demilitarizes the Soviet regime, lessens the danger of war, promotes East-West exchanges . . .