There is no indication that he is depressed or suicidal in his thought processes, which are more than usually critical of the ignorant West which embarked upon a futile ‘Cold War’ trajectory after the death of Roosevelt in April 1945. Indeed, this book bizarrely carries an ‘Epilogue’ by US historian Harrison E Salisbury, who tries desperately to ‘keep up’ with Alexander Werth, when in fact the Cold War nonsense Salisbury published is exactly the same anti-Soviet hysteria that Werth laments! Furthermore, Harrison, who considers himself an ‘expert’ upon Communist China, was nothing but a Eurocentric racist given the task of demonizing Communist China in the eyes of the American public. Yes, Harrison was a Cold War fool, but even after rambling for a number of pages about his ‘Stalin in Korea’ conspiracy, he mentions nothing (in 1971) about Alexander Werth supposedly ‘killing himself’ six months after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. One would have thought that such an opportunity to ridicule and demean the USSR would not have been missed, even if Harrison was pretending to keep up a veneer of academic scrutiny.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 