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The Times Finds Another Nice Communist

Hope springs eternal in the breast of the New York Times—particularly hope that somewhere, sometime it can find a Communist who isn’t really a Communist. Years ago it was Mao Tse-tung and his agrarian reformers; during the war, Stalin almost qualified; then it was Tito, then Malenkov, then Gomulka; and now it is Mao Tse-tung again.

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Frank S. Meyer

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

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The Times Finds Another Nice Communist

Hope springs eternal in the breast of the New York Times—particularly hope that somewhere, sometime it can find a Communist who isn’t really a Communist. Years ago it was Mao Tse-tung and his agrarian reformers; during the war, Stalin almost qualified; then it was Tito, then Malenkov, then Gomulka; and now it is Mao Tse-tung again.