In retrospect Alsop, in that same six-year-old issue, had been right.
What the Communist side is proposing, of course, is a Popular Front government, precisely patterned on the popular fronts established under Soviet sponsorship after World War II, as a prelude to total communist control. Hugh Trevor-Roper, the distinguished historian [described] ... the process as consisting of three stages: “Government by a genuine coalition of parties of the left and left-center, government by bogus coalition, and a final stage in which the bogus coalition was transformed into a monolithic block ...”
For Bobby there was a flash of clarity and the fog of neopolitical, historical interpretation.
Bobby took a new sheet of paper. “To become unstuck,” he wrote, “make a decision.” Again he paused. Perhaps
