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Born in Peru, he was trained in Moscow in the same schools and methods as Mao Tse-tung, returned to this hemisphere to organize and direct the VOL. 3, No. 23 AUGUST 10, 1953 successful "Popular Front" in Chile. He broke Contents with the Communist Party soon after the Stalin-Hitler Pact. In our issue of May 4 Editorials ("Peronism at Bay") he wrote of Argentina's The Fortnight....... ; . .. .. .. ........ .. 797 internal disruption and Peron's flirtation with the Kremlin. The Imperial Ice-Cap Cracks. .. ................... .. 799 But Aggression Continues........................... 800 FRANK H. KNIGHT, profQssor emeritus of eco­ Psychology of E.P.T 801· nomics at the University of Chicago, is a fre­ Twilight of European Aid........................... 801 quent contributor to economic journals and the author of a number of books on economic The Controlist Mania............................... 802 history and theory. Let's Look at the Record. .......................... .. 802 PIERRE FAILLANT is a French newspaperman, at­ Articles tached to the Agence France Presse in Paris. "'·American Rights VB. "Treaty Law" FRANK E. HOLMAN 803 COUNTESS WALDECK is contributing a regular Peron, Would-Be "Liberator" EUDOCIO RAVINES 806 "Letter" from various countries of Europe. Her next Letter will come from Germany. The Fallacies in the "Single Tax" FRANK H. KNIGHT 809 The Red Army's Bid for Power PIERRE FAILLANT 812 J. DONALD ADAMS, editor and essayist, well Letter from Paris R. G. WALDECK 814 known for his "Speaking of Books" department What Americans Need to Know J. DONALD ADAMS 815 in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, divides his time between the literary and the The Gory Road HELEN WOODWARD 816 outdoor life, with the la,tter about to meet the former in a forthcoming book he is preparing Books and the Arts on the American Indian. Science for Science's Sake MAX EASTMAN 818 HELEN WOODWARD needs no introduction to The Defense of Liberty BEN RAY REDMAN 819 FREEMAN readers. She has been a frequent Unwilling Slaves ROBERT DONLEVIN 820 contributor of book reviews, articles, and fea­ tures since the magazine's first days. Eighth Army in Defeat FRANK L. HOWLEY 821 For the Record " JAMES RORTY 821 FRANK L. HOWLEY, Brigadier General Retired of Prolific and Unhappy EDWARD DAVISON 822 the U. S. Army, is Vice Chancellor of New York Trade and Aid N. 1. STONE 823 University and author of the recently published Your War for Peace. Sax and Htis 'Phone SERGE FLIEGERS 824 EDWARD DAVISON, poet, critic, and professor, has Poem just been named director of the Hunter College Castaway WITTER BYNNER 816 School for General Studies in New York. 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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway SERVING: VIRGINIA • WEST .VffiGINIA • KENTUCKY • OHIO • INDIANA· MICHIGAN· SOUTHERN ONTARIO reemanTHE MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1953 Neither the United States nor the United Nations The Fortnight have come out of the Korean war with increased prestige. On the contrary, both have lost prestige. And now that, at long last, we have our truce in The United Nations, whose very frown was going Korea, what have we gained by it? How much is to halt an aggressor, was not able (or willing?) it worth to us? The first answer will be that at with its armed might to halt the armies of a sup­ least we have gained an end to, or a suspension posedly second-rate and backward foe. It was the of, the blood-letting and the slaughter. American United States and the United Nations that were boys are no longer under fire, and American par­ put in the position of suing for a truce. Certainly ents can breathe easier. All this is true; and yet it was not our own tactics that were chiefly re­ the satisfaction that we can take in this truth is sponsible for dragging out the truce negotiations considerably blunted when we recall that we could for more than two years and 158 meetings by the have had all this simply by not blundering into a top truce teams. If the Chinese Communists had land war in Korea in the first place. had a sincere desjre for a truce, they could have got it in one day and in one meeting. It was vve The question must be put differently. What have who, over these two years, allowed ourselves to we gained as the result of more than three years be accused and insulted daily and kept yielding of war, of the expenditure of billions, of 140,000 one point after another. On the battlefield itself, American casualties? And to cthis the answer must the best we won was a stalemate; and we turned be doubtful. We "halted" this particular aggres­ even this into the appearance of defeat by ac­ sion, in the sense that we threw it back to ap­ cepting a screening of our prisoners by a "neu­ proximately its point of origin. We inflicted on the tral" commission of five nations including, in enemy, so far as we are able to calculate, con­ addition to India, the two Communist satellites, siderably more casualties than we and the South Poland and Czechoslovakia.