Gathering Rosebuds

Stepping off the Queen Elizabeth with his wife, Britain's Professor Harold Laski, a longtime apologist for Communism, sadly confessed: "I am deeply grieved by the Russian treatment of Czechoslovakia and by what little I know about the Russian treatment of Italy in next month's election."*

Russia, said Laski, is "aware that it can't fight a major war with any degree of success. . . . The Russians are afraid of you and they will go as far as they can until you tell them to stop." But, he added, "the gentlemen in the Kremlin--and some of them are not gentlemen--rather naturally take the view that your policy in international affairs is semi-paralyzed until November. They're gathering rosebuds while they may."

* Wrote Author Laski in 1944: "No one is now entitled to doubt that there is developing in the Soviet Union those qualities of mind and heart which gave to the Greek city-state at its best the capacity to raise the moral stature of its citizens."

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