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In 1948, however, after the Soviet rejection of Marshall Aid and the communist takeover of Czechoslovakia, Tribune endorsed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and took a strongly anti-communist line.

" The major threat to democratic socialism and the major danger of war in Europe arises from Soviet policy and not from American policy ", declared the editors in November 1948.

" It is not the Americans who have imposed a blockade on Berlin.

It is not the Americans who have used conspiratorial methods to destroy democratic socialist parties in one country after another.

It is not the Americans who have blocked effective action through one United Nations agency after another.