Russia's Calamity
We know now that the steady depletion of Russia’s agriculture has been responsible for a series of sudden changes in the Politburo, and we turn to EDWARD CRANKSHAW,the English author and historian, for the down-to-earth elucidation of cause and effect. Mr. Crankshaw first visited Russia as a member of the British Military Mission to Moscow; he went back again in 1947 as a writer for the London Observer; and it was in the course of these tours of duty that he assembled the source material for his two readable and authoritative books, Russia and the Russians and Cracks in the Kremlin Wall.