How Close are We to War with Russia? (See Magazine, 1948)This article will recreate for the students of the Cold War a gross taste in their mouths; a sour, putrid sensation that must have been widespread among all the peace loving people of the world.
American journalist Cecil Brown (1907 - 1987) did a fine job in presenting all the various bad choices that were on the table in 1948, when the leaders of the freer nations, still smarting form W.W. II, found that Stalin and Co. were reneging on their obligations under the 1945 Potsdam Treaty (among other agreements) and actively attempting to sabotage the economic recovery in Western Europe.
The article is illustrated with five black and white photos and answers thirty-four questions as to whether or not a war with the Soviet Union can be avoided.
At the time this article appeared on the newsstands Berlin was undergoing it's third month of deprivations as a result of a Soviet blockade (you can read about the Berlin Blockade here).
Stalin's Nine Point Plan (Coronet Magazine, 1951)Joseph Stalin (1878 - 1953) is credited as the author of the attached article, "Russia's Plan for World Conquest", and it outlines all the various methods Soviet agents can subvert and curry-favor among the various youth and labor groups that are based in the industrialized democracies of the West:
"...here is the Russian Dictator's nine point program for world conquest, taken from his recorded writings, which are now on file in the Stalin Archives of the National War College in Washington, D.C. Italicized sentences have been inserted throughout the article in order to point up Stalin's plan in the light of today's crucial events." [ie. the Korean War]
"As Lenin has said, a terrible clash between Soviet Russia and the capitalist States must inevitably occur...Therefore we must try to take the enemy by surprise, seize a moment when his forces are dispersed."
Big Trouble in Little Cuba (Collier's Magazine, 1945)The attached article is about the controversial Cuban President Ramón Grau San Martin (1887 - 1969) and his struggle with the radical elements within Cuba. This COLLIER'S MAGAZINE piece will give you an understanding that the roots of communism on that Caribbean island have a longer history than you might have supposed; when it first appeared on the newsstands, Fidel Castro (b. 1926) was a still a mediocre law student.
"Economic chaos was the thing that gave Communism its start in Cuba.
Things are better now and the Red growth has slowed. If chaos comes again, Communism may not be very far behind."
In 2011 Castro confessed in an interview with an American reporter that the "Cuban model" [of Communism] has not been successful.
The Cold War and Public Opinion ('47 Magazine, 1947)This article was written by Gallup Poll Editor William Lydgate who compared various opinion surveys that were taken shortly after the close of W.W. II with the ones that were created just one year later.
The 1945 poll revealed that the American public generally looked forward to friendly relations with the Soviet Union, shared remarkably high hopes for world peace and believed deeply that the United Nations would be responsible for the creation of a better world. However, the 1946 poll measured an enormous drop in this sunny disposition:
"Within one year after VJ-Day, the Gallup Poll was finding that almost nobody thought Russia would co-operate with us; that fewer than half the voters in the country were satisfied with the progress of the United Nations; and, most melancholy fact of all, that two out of every three (65%) said that they thought the United States would find itself in another war within 25 years."
Journalist Daniel Schorr and Premier Khrushchev (Coronet Magazine, 1961)"When C.B.S.' Daniel Schorr (1916 – 2010) and U.S.S.R.'s Mr. K meet head on - sparks and fur fly; and Nikita doesn't always come out on top."
"Premier Khrushchev has been known, upon spotting the 44-year American newsman, to boom, 'Ah, there's old Schorr, my sputnik.'"
Meet Andrei Gromyko (Collier's Magazine, 1946)When this magazine profile of Andrei Gromyko (1909 – 1989) appeared on the newsstands in 1946, the man was already a mainstay in the State Department Rolodex. Anyone who came of age during the Cold War (1947 - 1991) will certainly recognize his name, because as Foreign Minister for the Soviet Union (for 28 years), Gromyko was without a doubt one of the architects of the Cold War.
The attached article outlines Gromyko's career highlights up to the Summer of 1946 when he was posted as the first Soviet Ambassador to the newly established United Nations.
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