The Third World War

The Quiet Kremlin

An. unexpected feature of 1956, becoming more noticeable as the year rounds the three-quarter mark, is the continuing passivity in Soviet foreign policy. That Washington’s foreign policy should be passive is expected and routine. But quiet in Moscow prompts reflection. And it is a fact that Moscow has attempted nothing spectacular in foreign affairs since the Bulganin-Khrushchev Far Eastern trip last December—a move which, moreover, had minor, even negative, results.