The Fringe podcast will highlight voices from the past. Those voices will be of individuals that have warned us and enlightened us on what our future will be if we don’t take corrective measures in reference to things that are out of balance right at this moment. Moments are what our lives are made up of, a decision and action, or inaction commonly phrased as kicking the can down the road, will get to it later, it’s not that important, we really don’t need to be focusing on that. Decisions made in haste do not help us address the pressing issues we should be focusing on. Featured voices such as Barbara Jordan, one of the most profound political thinkers of our time, lays out a path for America to protect principles that are the foundation of this nation, at the democratic convention in 1976. Also featured will be Martin Luther King, as he explains the lack of economic freedom for minorities, and the cost America will pay for the lack of prosperity of our underprivileged communities; specifically food deserts in the inner city. Let’s travel back in time and hear the warnings, it will sound all too familiar as they lay out the issues of five decades ago that we’re still facing. The same issues exist now, yet there’s no intelligent person on the face of the earth that seems to have a solution. Issues we know all too well. What was the headline then, is a headline now, and our mental paralysis is too costly to sustain.

Book overview

This book tells the inside story of Russia from the treason trials to the Nazi-Soviet war. Joseph E. Davies was appointed American Ambassador to the USSR on November 16, 1936, and left for his post shortly thereafter. He arrived to find the treason trial of Karl Radek approaching its climax. He remained in Moscow until the eve of the Czechoslovak crisis. Mr. Davies' departure from Moscow did not end his activities in the field of Russian-American relations. After a year and a half as Ambassador to Brussels, he was summoned back to Washington to serve as special assistant to the State Department in charge of war emergency problems and policies. Mission to Moscow is a report to the American people on the facts which enabled Mr. Davies to predict the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the outbreak of the war, the German attack on Russia, and the amazing resistance of the Red Army. In addition to telling a new story for the fist time, Mission to Moscow tells this story in a new way. The book is made up entirely of confidential dispatches to the State Department, selections from diary and journal entries, and correspondence both official and personal.

Published 1943

Garden City Publishing Co., Inc.

Garden City, New York.

Published by arrangement with

Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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