Pink Snow Falls Again

in flexibility, whereas inflexibility on points of principle often is a nation’s strength. If he moved with the crowd during the New Deal era, one can at least say that his actions were approved by a nation that had joined in the general retreat from firm principles. For conservatives, All in One Lifetime is a salutary lesson in practical politics.

when Edgar Snow published his best known book, Red Star Over China, a highly eulogistic account of what he found behind the Red lines in the Chinese civil war, a review in an English language paper published in China was entitled “Pink Snow Over China.” This is understandably not mentioned in Mr. Snow’s work, Journey to the Beginning: A Personal View of Contemporary History (Random House, $5.00), the personal story of three decades of journalism, primarily concerned with China, secondarily with the Soviet Union. But it still has its application.

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in flexibility, whereas inflexibility on points of principle often is a nation’s strength. If he moved with the crowd during the New Deal era, one can at least say that his actions were approved by a nation that had joined in the general retreat from firm principles. For conservatives, All in One Lifetime is a salutary lesson in practical politics.

when Edgar Snow published his best known book, Red Star Over China, a highly eulogistic account of what he found behind the Red lines in the Chinese civil war, a review in an English language paper published in China was entitled “Pink Snow Over China.” This is understandably not mentioned in Mr. Snow’s work, Journey to the Beginning: A Personal View of Contemporary History (Random House, $5.00), the personal story of three decades of journalism, primarily concerned with China, secondarily with the Soviet Union. But it still has its application.