Behind the Curtain

✍ Scribed by John Gunther

• Publisher: Harper & Bros
• Year: 1949
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 382
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

(travelogue of Soviet Satellite Countries)
Post-WW2 Eastern European totalitarian regimes... and their Jewish government officials.

'Jews play a very prominent role in several governments. Here we tread delicate ground. The three 'Muscovites' who run Hungary are Jews, the men who dominate Poland are Jews, the secretary general of the Communist party in Czechoslovakia is a Jew, Ana Pauker of Rumania is a Jewess....'

✦ Table of Contents

1. Introduction—Italy as Breakwater.
2. Orient Express.
3. Chinks in the Curtain, Plus Certain Observations at Large.
4. Yugoslavia, the How and Why.
5. Tito.
6. The Cominform Rupture.
7. Men around Tito.
8. From Zagreb to Budapest.
9. Other Leaders, Other Satellites.
10. The American War in Greece.
11. Talking Turkey.
12. Hungarian New World.
13. The Man Who Rules Hungary.
14. The Czechoslovak Tragedy.
15. Warsaw Redivivus.
16. More about the Poles.
17. Vienna Still Alive.
18. Confusions and Perplexities in Germany.
19. Footnote on France and England.
20. Conclusion—Iron Curtain and Russian Policy.

✦ Subjects

anti-Semitism, Cold War, COMINFORM, Communist, Czechoslovakia, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iron Curtain, Italy, Jews, journalism, Macedonia, Marx, nationalisation, Orient Express, Partisans, Pauker, Poland, Rakosi, Red Army, Russia, Tito, Soviet Satellite States, travelogue, Turkey, Vienna, WW2, Yugoslavia