Russia, Russia - Unwashed, Backward, Appealing Russia,

The Truth Is Sometimes A Poor Competitor In The Market Place Of Ideas – Complicated, Unsatisfying, Full Of Dilemmas, Always Vulnerable To Misinterpretation And Abuse.

We Are, If Territory And Population Be Looked At Together, One Of The Great Countries Of The World - A Monster Country, One Might Say, Along With Others Such As China, India, The Recent Soviet Union, And Brazil. And There Is A Real Question As To Whether "bigness" In A Body Politic Is Not An Evil In Itself, Quite Aside From The Policies Pursued In Its Name.

Fig Leaves Of Democratic Procedure To Hide The Nakedness Of Stalinist Dictatorship.

The Best Thing We Can Do If We Want The Russians To Let Us Be Americans Is To Let The Russians Be Russian.

Bearing All This In Mind, We See That There Is No Russian National Understanding Which Would Permit The Early Establishment In Russia Of Anything Resembling The Private Enterprise System As We Know It.