Nuclear blackmail threats. exercises in Potemkin Village economics. and many other stratagems have their substantial precedents in the history of Russian empire building. written by the blood of both the oppressed Russian and nonRussian peoples. The peaceatnoprice attitude shown by Moscow toward the summit indicates in itself the manner by which it seeks to exploit this given opportunity. Its propaganda machine has even gone to the length of attempting to compromise the position of Western Germany by unjust attacks upon Theodore Oberlaender. the Refugee Minister of our ally. in whose defense scores of witnesses in this country could be supplied. Its propaganda exploitation of the U2 incident. which may well backfire. is more generally known. In short.