Lesson

For any who still needed a lesson in the ways and meaning of Russian Communism, it was a week of disjointed but sobering education. Bits & pieces of the text were scattered everywhere.

One chapter was to be found in Moscow, where Russian obduracy had blocked all attempts to relieve the siege of Berlin (see INTERNATIONAL). Another appeared in the testimony before a congressional committee of a onetime U.S. Communist, who declared that she had been bribed and decorated by Moscow for spying on the U.S. while the two countries were wartime allies. In London, a handful of Czech and Hungarian athletes expressed their feeling for their conqueror by refusing to return home after the Olympics and seeking asylum in Britain.

But the most sharply etched lesson of all was given in Manhattan by a dumpy little Russian schoolteacher who had been ordered to return to her homeland. Imprisoned by her countrymen, she decided that it was better to risk death instead.

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