List of Plain Talk (magazine) issues
Plain Talk (magazine) was a monthly political magazine published in the United States from 1946 to 1950. Edited by Isaac Don Levine, the magazine was known for its strong anti-communist stance and its focus on exposing the activities and influence of communism in the United States and abroad. Plain Talk positioned itself as a defender of American democracy and Western ideals during the early stages of the Cold War.
Publication Overview
The most-bylined authors for the life of the publication, omitting several who wrote unsigned pieces, were: O.J. Dekom, Eugene Lyons, Edna Lonigan, Leon Dennen, Alfred Kohlberg, Ludwig von Mises, Isaac Don Levine.
1946
October 1946
Vol. 1, No. 1 - October 1946 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Ralph de Toledano - Contributing Editors: Christopher T. Emmett, Jr., Karl Baarslag - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main story: "The first inside story of the State Department Espionage Case" by E.S. Larsen, one of the Six Defendants - p. 27
- "Stalin's Hand in our Ballot Box" - p. 5
- "Hungary in Agony" - p. 9
- "Doubleday's Fast Company" - p. 14
- "The Secret Battalion" - p. 16
- "Operation Veterans" - p. 19
- "Exodus from Paradise" - p. 23
- "Why Worry About Communism?" - p. 25
- "The Next Pearl Harbor" - p. 3
November 1946
Vol. 1, No. 2 - November 1946 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Ralph de Toledano - Contributing Editors: Christopher T. Emmett, Jr., Karl Baarslag - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main story: "The First Authentic Report on Stalin's Hand in the Panama Canal" by Ralph de Toledano - p. 31
- "20 Questions for Ickes" - p. 7
- "What Nuremberg Concealed" - by Eugene Lyons - p. 9
- "How to Tell a Front" - by Nelson Frank - p. 12
- "An American Policy for China" - p. 15
- "Mrs. Dean's Foreign Policy Lobby" - by S. Marley - p. 16
- "Gerald Smith's Youth Front" - by Pete Wilbur - p. 21
- "Catechism for Spies" - p. 24
- "The Comintern Rides Again" - by Berlin Letter - p. 26
- "A Pattern of Conquest" - by John F. Cronin - p. 28
- "How Many Communists Has N.Y.?" - p. 39
- "A Workable Plan for Peace With Russia" - p. 3
December 1946
Vol. 1, No. 3 - December 1946 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Ralph de Toledano - Contributing Editors: Christopher T. Emmett, Jr., Karl Baarslag - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main story: "The New Rulers of Europe: Stalin's Rogues Gallery" - by George Creel - p. 31
- "Why the Republican Landslide" - by Christopher Emmet - p. 5
- "Religious Terror in Yugoslavia" - p. 9
- "Merrill's Marauders in Wall St." - by John Leslie - p. 11
- "The IPR-Tokyo Axis" - by Sheppard Marley - p. 14
- "Behind Marshall's Back" - p. 20
- "Attention, Van Bittner of CIO" - by Rev. Wm. J. Smith - p. 21
- "Jewish Life in Soviet Russia" - p. 23
- "'The Communists Are No Menace'" - by Lyle Yost - p. 25
- "The Call America Fascist" - by Andrew Avery - p. 28
- "Housecleaning in Washington" - p. 3
1947
January 1947
Vol. 1, No. 4 - January 1947 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Ralph de Toledano - Contributing Editors: Christopher T. Emmett, Jr., Karl Baarslag - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: “On the Island of Berlin” – by Louis Fischer – p. 3
- “Lassoing American Youth” – by Robert Trevor – p. 10
- “Europe’s Secret Armies” – by Paris Letter – p. 13
- “Delivering China to Russia” – by Alfred Kohlberg – p. 16
- “Communism Across the Counter” – by Bernard Fielding – p. 19
- “IPR—Carter’s Pink Pills” – by Sheppard Marley – p. 24
- “The Trial of Mihailovich” – by Rebecca West – p. 30
- “The First Year of the Truce” – Editorial – p. 40
- “Journey to Magadan: One Woman’s Life in Soviet Slavery” – p. 32
February 1947
Vol. 1, No. 5 - February 1947 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Ralph de Toledano - Contributing Editors: Christopher T. Emmett, Jr., Karl Baarslag - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: “The Atomic Crisis (Conspiracy or Blunder?)” – p. 1
- “Our Atomic UNRRA” – by Isaac Don Levine – p. 3
- “Preventing Atomic War” – by Bertrand Russell – p. 13
- “Stalin’s New German Army” – by Julius Epstein – p. 17
- “Liberals’ Awakening” – by Ralph de Toledano – p. 19
- “Roosevelt’s Lucky Number” – by Sir Ernest Benn – p. 24
- “Businessman’s Front” – by John Leslie – p. 26
- “Journey to Magadan, II” – by T. L. – p. 29
- “The Two ‘Embezzlers’” – p. 39
- “Inside the Comintern” – by Victor Serge – p. 22
March 1947
Vol. 1, No. 6 - March 1947 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Ralph de Toledano - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Karl Baarslag - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: “Red Mouthpiece (The Facts Behind ‘In Fact’)” – by Eugene Lyons – p. 3
- “Dear Dr. Einstein” – by Suzanne La Follette – p. 14
- “Are GIs Riding a Gravy Train? — Two Views” – p. 17
- "Yes" – by Herbert G. Moore – p. 17
- "No" – by Robert Trevor – p. 20
- “The Satevepost’s Mr. Snow” – by Gen. Patrick J. Hurley – p. 23
- “The Vivisection of Poland” – by Ann Su Cardwell – p. 25
- “Labor’s Great Divide” – by John F. Cronin – p. 30
- “The Communist Is Always Logical” – by J. C. Howell – p. 33
- “Report From Red China” – A Letter – p. 36
- “First—An Atomic Policy… Then—The Lilienthal Issue” – p. 46
April 1947
Vol. 1, No. 7 - April 1947 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Ralph de Toledano - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: “In Defense of My Country (A Challenge to Stalin)” – by Alexander Kerensky – p. 23
- “Outlawing the Communist Party?” – Editorial – p. 3
- “The German Ego in Defeat” – by Alexander Janta – p. 10
- “Peron’s Road to Fascism” – by E. von Hofmannsthal – p. 14
- “Wreckers at the Switch” – by Franklin J. Anderson – p. 19
- “Spotting the Communist Racket” – by Karl Baarslag – p. 31
- “The Best Years of Our Lives” – by W. Markham – p. 35
- “Journey to Magadan” – by T. L. – p. 38
- “The Lie Marches On” – by Alfred Kohlberg – p. 44
- “Must We Fight Russia?” – p. 5
May 1947
Vol. 1, No. 8 - May 1947 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Ralph de Toledano - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: "'GULAG' - Slavery, Inc. Up-to-date Report on Soviet Forced Labor with Comprehensive Map" - p. 23
- "Tug-of-War in Korea" - by Robert T. Oliver - p. 3
- "Hollywood's Foreign Legion" - by Eugene Lyons - p. 9
- "State Department's Left Hand" - by Alfred Kohlberg - p. 12
- "Stalin's King of Saboteurs" - by Kurt Singer - p. 18
- "AVC, What Now?" - by Ralph de Toledano - p. 21
- "Book Club for Innocents" - by John Leslie - p. 27
- "A Russian Underground?" - by Joseph Zack - p. 31
- "Odyssey of a Jewish Partisan" - by Josef Sigelbaum - p. 33
- "Wallace on the Flying Trapeze" - by I.D.L. - p. 46
- "Soviet Atom Plants" - by Leon Dennen - p. 48
- "Beginning an Exciting New Serial I Dwelt With Death" - p. 37
June 1947
Vol. 1, No. 9 - June 1947 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: "Stalin's Blueprint for a Soviet Negro Republic in the U.S.A." - by George S. Schuyler - p.3
- "The Atom Bomb is Old-Fashioned" - by O.J. Dekom - p. 10
- "Behind the Asbestos Curtain" - by Walter K. Lewis - p. 13
- "Chameleons in Latin America" - by Stephen Naft - p. 17
- "A Workable Plan for Germany" - by Wilhelm Roepke - p. 19
- "Little Nazi, What Now?" - by Plain Talk Document - p. 25
- "The Red Spy Net" - by Thomas M. Johnson - p. 26
- "Comintern Olympics" - by Leon Dennen - p. 31
- "Teachers' Fifth Column" - by Mabel Travis Wood - p. 32
- "France Resurgent" - by The Observer - p. 35
- "I Dwelt with Death II" - by Andrey A. Stotski - p. 38
- "The Sick Man of Europe" - Editorial - p. 48
July 1947
Vol. 1, No. 10 - July 1947 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: “Heavenly Discourse with Secretary Marshall” – Editorial – p. 3
- “Don’t Betray the Russian People” – by Eugene Lyons – p. 5
- “Comintern Ladies Aid” – by Suzanne La Follette – p. 8
- “I Sang for Stalin” – by Vassily P. Golovanov – p. 12
- “China’s ‘New Democracy’” – by Lin Yutang – p. 17
- “Red Watch in Our Harbors” – by Kurt Singer – p. 20
- “Diplomatic Fifth Column” – by O. J. Dekom – p. 25
- “Marooned in Paradise” – by Gustav Regler – p. 29
- “Poland: Star Puppet” – by Ann Su Cardwell – p. 32
- “Wanted: Legal Technicians” – by Lyle Yost – p. 35
- “A Way to Stop War” – by Vadim Makaroff – p. 36
- “I Dwelt with Death, III” – by Andrey A. Stotski – p. 39
August 1947
Vol. 1, No. 11 - August 1947 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: “Cruelty Has a Human Heart” – Editorial – p. 3
- “Hitler’s Arch-Collaborator” – p. 3
- “How Tito Killed UNRRA” – by Guy Hickok – p. 5
- “Yalta Boomerang” – by Jan Ciechanowski – p. 10
- “The Intelligent Student’s Guide” – by Andrew Lund – p. 13
- “Jazz on Capitol Hill” – by Robert Trevor – p. 17
- “Imperialism in Reverse” – by John Groel – p. 19
- “Clear it with the Politburo” – by Alfred Kohlberg – p. 21
- “The Soviet Military Bluff” – by Herbert G. Moore – p. 22
- “Gerald Smith & Co.” – by Sen. Jack B. Tenney – p. 26
- “Stalin’s German Army Grows” – by Julius Epstein – p. 29
- “I Dwelt with Death, IV” – by Andrey A. Stotski – p. 31
- “Straight Talk from Arthur Hays Sulzberger” – p. 39
September 1947
Vol. 1, No. 12 - September 1947 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: "Red Star Over Independence Square The Strange Case of Edgar Snow and The Saturday Evening Post" - by Freda Utley - p. 9
- "The Witch-Hunt Bogey" - Editorial - p. 3
- "Students, on Guard!" - by M. T. W. - p. 4
- "Armed Resistance in Russia" - by Leon Dennen - p. 7
- "Meet the Parfist" - by Nard Jones - p. 21
- "The Red Electric Machine Behind the Matles Mask" - by Franklin J. Anderson - p. 23
- "The Red Electric Machine Bridgeport Purge" - as told by J. Julianelle - p. 25
- "The Red Electric Machine "Commie-dy" in Clifton - by Matthew Ford - p. 27
- "Russia's Superior Mobility" - by Joseph Zack - p. 31
- "This is the New South" - by Robert West Howard - p. 34
- "Wrecking a Fraternal Union" - by O.J. Dekom - p. 44
- "I Taught Economics A College Saga of Our Times" - by Edna Lonigan - p. 38
October 1947
Vol. 2, No. 1 - October 1947 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: "The Real Trygve Lie Stalin's Tool in the U.N.?" - by Sheppard Marley - p. 3
- "Our Student Comes of Age" - by Andrew Lund - p. 10
- "Molotov's Newest Bluff" - by Alexander Szasz - p. 13
- "Is Profit Sharing a Solution?" - by I.D.L. - p. 14
- "He Welcomed Wallace" - by Kurt Singer - p. 15
- "Million-Dollar Baby" - by Alfred Kohlberg - p. 23
- "Acid Test for AVC" - by Ralph de Toledano - p. 24
- "Letter to A Communist" - by Lyle Yost - p. 39
- "A Note of Mystery" - by Eugene Lyons - p. 40
- "A Bookman's Horizon" - by Burton Rascoe - p. 41
- "Summer Clergy" - by Frederick W. Beekman - p. 45
- "John Stuart Mill" - by Edna Lonigan - p. 47
- "On Liberty (A Condensation)" - by John Stuart Mill - p. 49
- "Libertygram" - by A New Game - p. 63
- "Sec. Byrnes' Top Security Man Tells the Inside Story of Comrade Marzani in the State Department" - by J. Anthony Panuch - p. 27 - Former Deputy Asst. Secretary of State
November 1947
Vol. 2, No. 2 - November 1947 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: "Screen Guide for Americans" - by Ayn Rand - p. 37
- "Russia's Postwar Purge" - by Eugene Lyons - p. 17
- "Diplomatic Waterloo for Stalin" - by Isaac Don Levine - p. 3
- "Lovely Lena Toes the Line" - by George S. Schuyler - p. 8
- "Christian Martyrs in Korea" - by Geraldine Fitch - p. 10
- "13 Astor Place" - by Mabel Travis Wood - p. 13
- "The A-Bomb and the Comintern" - by Leon Dennen - p. 29
- "I've Got a Little List" - by Vishinsky's Version - p. 31
- "So Runs the World" - Editorials - p. 32
- "14 Striking Similarities" - by Hon. Fred E. Busbey - p. 34
- "I Was Tito's Courier" - by Oton Grozdic - p. 35
- "Warfare in Stalin's Empire Resistance in the Ukraine" - by Walter Dushnyck - p. 43
- "Warfare in Stalin's Empire Revolt in Yugoslavia" - by B.J. Todorovich - p. 45
- "Fellows, I Smell Smoke!" - by Jim Valtin - p. 47
- "Frederic Bastiat" - by Edna Lonigan - p. 49
- "The Socialist Chimera" - by Frederic Bastiat - p. 51
- "Libertygram" - by A New Game - p. 63
- "Homer Martin's 'Key to Industrial Peace'" - p. 22
December 1947
Vol. 2, No. 3 - December 1947 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: "Stalin's Spy Ring in the U.S.A." - p. 3
- "Salvaging Social Security" - by Edna Lonigan - p. 9
- "Soviet Pattern for Germany" - by Alexander Boeker - p. 5
- "Betraying the Negro Case" - by George S. Schuyler - p. 15
- "Proletarian Sun-God" - by Alfred Kohlberg - p. 17
- "The 'New Man' in Dreamland" - by Hal Lehrman - p. 18
- "Washington Reporter" - by O.J. Dekom - p. 25
- "Gabriel Was Here" - by Gleb Botkin - p. 28
- "L'Affaire Picasso" - by Eugene Tillinger - p. 30
- "So Runs the World" - Editorials - p. 32
- "Finland in the Red Shadow" - by Aage Heinberg - p. 34
- "Recent Americana" - by Burton Rascoe - p. 42
- "Libertygram" - A New Game - p. 45
- "Jewish Congress in Captivity" - by Jacob Pat - p. 46
- "The Arty Party Line" - by Howard Rushmore - p. 47
- "From Freedom to Bondage" - by Herbert Spencer - p. 49
- "John Chamberlain on the Pearl Harbor Mystery" - p. 38
1948
January 1948
Vol. 2, No. 4 - January 1948 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: "First Eyewitness Account: How the Soviets Mine Uranium in Germany" - p. 5
- "Is Native Fascism a Menace?" - by Ralph de Toledano - p. 12
- "That White House Dinner" - by Bogdan Raditsa - p. 15
- "The Myth-Makers" - by Leopold Schwarzschild - p. 19
- "The Witch Hunt" - by George S. Schuyler - p. 25
- "China's 'Liberal' Front" - by Emmanuel S. Larsen - p. 27
- "So Runs the World" - Editorial - p. 32
- "The Washington Reporter" - by O.J. Dekom - p. 34
- "She Teaches Philosophy" - by Edna Lonigan - p. 37
- "A Bookman's Horizon" - by Asher Brynes - p. 41
- "It Could Happen to Vishinsky" - by Henry Landowski - p. 47
- "Pictures of the Socialistic Future" - by Eugen Richter - p. 49
- "Libertygram" - A New Game - p. 63
- "Who Are the A-Bomb Spies?" - by Howard Rushmore - p. 3
February 1948
Vol. 2, No. 5 - February 1948 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: “How MacArthur Thwarted a Red Japan” – by P. J. Byrne, M.M. – p. 23
- “Italy, Stalin’s Target No. 1” – by Mario P. Alfieri – p. 3
- “Labor Out of the Red” – by Joseph M. Brown – p. 10
- “Strange People, These Americans” – by V. Petrov – p. 14
- “Open Letter to General Electric’s Mr. Wilson” – p. 17
- “The Washington Reporter” – by O. J. Dekom – p. 19
- “So Runs the World” – Editorials – p. 32
- “The South Is Facing Up” – by William Rufus Scott – p. 34
- “Taxes and Tyranny” – by Edna Lonigan – p. 37
- “Little Red Riding Hood, 1948” – Cartoon – p. 42
- “Treason, Incorporated” – by Asher Brynes – p. 43
- “Spotlight on Germany” – by Clara G. Stillman – p. 46
- “The Complacent Diarist” – by Gustav Regler – p. 50
- “The Tyranny of Socialism” – by Yves Guyot – p. 53
- “The Nazis Try a Comeback” – p. 63
March 1948
Vol. 2, No. 6 - March 1948 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler - Publisher: Alfred Kohlberg - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: “Herbert Hoover’s Plan for Palestine” – p. 32
- “Red Ambassador” – by Bogdan Raditsa – p. 6
- “The Washington Post” – by O. J. Dekom – p. 11
- “Weekend at the Roosevelt” – by Alfred Kohlberg – p. 19
- “The Keynesian Miracle” – by Ludwig von Mises – p. 21
- “As Europe Sees It” – by George H. Combs, Jr. – p. 28
- “So Runs the World” – Editorials – p. 32
- “The Washington Reporter” – by O. J. D. – p. 35
- “To Secure Our Liberties” – by Edna Lonigan – p. 37
- “Orphans of Tyranny” – by Eugene Lyons – p. 41
- “Inside the Russian Zone” – by Harry W. Flannery – p. 47
- “Janus from Iowa” – Wallace’s Record – p. 49
- “Is Revolution War?” – by Asher Brynes – p. 50
- “Reactionary Remedy” – by William Torrey Harris – p. 54
- “Modernized Treason” – by Wade Windsor – p. 63
- Cartoon: by C. D. Batchelor – p. 34
- “Struggle for Power in the Kremlin” – by Leon Denen – p. 3
April 1948
Vol. 2, No. 7 - April 1948 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler, John Chamberlain - Publisher: Alfred Kohlberg - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: “Moscow Takes Over the Nazi War Machine”
- “Hollywood’s Iron Curtain” – by Victor Lasky – p. 6
- “The Artichoke Technique” – by C. D. Batchelor – p. 10
- “Life in Soviet America” – by Guy Hickok – p. 11
- “Solution for Palestine” – by Isaac Don Levine – p. 16
- “The Untried Approach” – by W. C. Lowdermilk – p. 17
- “Taft’s Foreign Policy” – by I. D. L. – p. 22
- “So Runs the World” – Editorial – p. 32
- “The Washington Reporter” – by O. J. Dekom – p. 34
- “Stalin’s World Slavic Army” – by Stephen Naft – p. 36
- “So You’re a ‘Red-Baiter"! – by Joseph R. Lebo – p. 41
- “The Great Illusion” – by John Chamberlain – p. 43
- “Lithuanian Tragedy” – by Watson Kirkconnell – p. 48
- “Daily Worker Kick-Back” – by H. Rushmore – p. 49
- “The Puppet’s Puppet” – by Pyrrhus J. Ruches – p. 50
- “Tito’s Great Hoax” – by Bogdan Raditsa – p. 53
- “The Coming Terror” – by Robert Buchanan – p. 57
- “How Big Is Taft?” – by Benjamin Stolberg – p. 23
May 1948
Vol. 2, No. 8 - May 1948 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler, John Chamberlain - Publisher: Alfred Kohlberg - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: "They Knife Gen. Clay" - by Blair Taylor - p. 1
- "Where I Stand" - by Harold E. Stassen - p. 30
- "I Was in Bogota" - by Donald L. Jackson - p. 7
- "Bogota's 'Reichstag Fire'" - by Stephen Naft - p. 10
- "A Primer for Innocents" - by Murray C. Bernays - p. 11
- "Communist Anti-Semitism" - by Eugene Tillinger - p. 16
- "Soviet-American Spy Prodigies" - by A. Kohlberg - p. 17
- "The Debasement of Science" - by Asher Brynes - p. 22
- "Cartoon" - by C.D. Batchelor - p. 25
- "The Washington Reporter" - by O.J. Dekom - p. 26
- "So Runs the World" - Editorial - p. 32
- "Miss Plastic Picks it Up" - by Nard Jones - p. 41
- "Wallace Coup in the Bronx" - by Walter K. Lewis - p. 43
- "Sovietizing Lithuania" - by Jeanne Perkins - p. 46
- "Lenin's Legacy" - by Bookman's Horizon - p. 52
- "The Fallacies of Socialism" - by David Jayne Hill - p. 55
- "Mystery Fortress on the Baltic" - Inside back cover
- "Wedge in Hawaii" - by Victor Lasky - p. 34
June 1948
Vol. 2, No. 9 - June 1948 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler, John Chamberlain - Publisher: Alfred Kohlberg - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: "Who Runs Wallace?" - by Victor Lasky
- "FDR's Shadow in '48" - by John Chamberlain
- "Why is a Dark Horse?" - by Henry Hazlitt
- "Our Fig-Leaf Foreign Policy" - by Isaac Don Levine
- "Cook at the Kremlin" - by Marie Corbin
July 1948
Vol. 2, No. 10 - July 1948 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler, John Chamberlain - Publisher: Alfred Kohlberg - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: "Tug-of-War in Berlin" - by Bud Kane
- "Jack London's Prophecy" - by H.R. Knickerbocker
- "Oil Diplomacy in Zion" - by Eliahu Ben-Horin
- "How We Fed the Russians" - by Lt. Gen. William N. Haskell (Ret.)
- "Liberty to Destroy Liberty" - by Isaac Don Levine
August 1948
Vol. 2, No. 11 - August 1948 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler, John Chamberlain - Publisher: Alfred Kohlberg - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: "Why Tito Broke with Moscow" - by Ruth Fischer
- "Those 'Agrarians' in China" - by Rodney Gilbert
- "The Road Back to Liberty" - by Edna Lonigan
- "Churchill's 'Gathering Storm'" - by Leopold Schwarzschild
- "Who's Undermining Civil Liberties?" - by Lawrence Fertig
September 1948
Vol. 2, No. 12 - September 1948 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler, John Chamberlain - Publisher: Alfred Kohlberg - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main article: "Inside Story of Our Soviet Underworld" - by Isaac Don Levine
- "Stalin's Jazz Artist" - by Jury Jelagin
- "Crisis on the Campus" - by Herbert G. Moore
- "Laski: The Planners' Ordeal" - by John Chamberlain
- "What's Wrong with the Loyalty Program?"
October 1948
Vol. 3, No. 1 - October 1948 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler, John Chamberlain - Publisher: Alfred Kohlberg - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main story: "Must it be war?" - by George Hamilton Combs
- "The Evolution of Dewey and Truman"
- "Operation Donald Duck" - by James Rorty
- "Wall Street and the Liberals" - by Victor F. Morris
- "How Gideon Led the New Republic"
November 1948
Vol. 3, No. 2 - November 1948 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler, John Chamberlain - Publisher: Alfred Kohlberg - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main story: "How the Soviets Steal our Industrial Secrets" - by J. Anthony Marcus
- "It need not be war" - by H.R. Knickerbocker
- "The First Account: Execution of Stalin's Spy in the Tower of London" - by Isaac Don Levine
- "Democracy and the Republic" - by Edna Lonigan
December 1948
Vol. 3, No. 3 - December 1948 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler, John Chamberlain - Publisher: Alfred Kohlberg - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main story: "What you can do to get prices down" - by John T. Flynn
- "The Erosion of My Country" - by Stanislaw Mikolajcsyk
- "Infection in the Colleges" - by Archie Black
- "Portrait of Uncle Sam in Stalin's Distorted Mirror" - by M.K. Jeleznov
- "The Mystery of Earl Browder"
1949
January 1949
Vol. 3, No. 4 - January 1949 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler, John Chamberlain - Publisher: Alfred Kohlberg - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main story: "Marshall Field's $7,000,000 Voyage: PM's Falling Star" - by John Christopher
- "Sequel to Chambers' Story" - by Isaac Don Levine
- "The Happy Hour" - by Marie Corbin
- "Communist Record on Palestine" - by Louis Jay Herman
- "Laissez Faire or Dictatorship" - by Ludwig Von Mises
February 1949
Vol. 3, No. 5 - February 1949 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler, John Chamberlain - Publisher: Alfred Kohlberg - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main story: "The Story Behind: The Strange Case of Laurence Duggan" - by Isaac Don Levine
- "Are We Letting Nazis In?" - by Guenther Reinhardt
- "Anti-American Interview: Pearl Buck with Mrs. Robeson" - by Suzanne La Follette
- "Trotsky's Assassin: Man with the Iron Mask"
March 1949
Vol. 3, No. 6 - March 1949 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler, John Chamberlain - Publisher: Alfred Kohlberg - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main story: "General Anders, Hero of Monte Cassino, Tells His Own Story: Stalin Set me Free"
- "The Anatomy of a Front" - by Paul Crouch
- "The Kremlin's Iron Tide: 65,000 Tanks a Year"
- "Chennault's Bombshell" - by Rodney Gilbert
April 1949
Vol. 3, No. 7 - April 1949 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler, John Chamberlain - Publisher: Alfred Kohlberg - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main story: "It Happened at Columbia" - by Arthur P. Coleman
- "Nazi Death Camps under the Hammer and Sickle" - by Guenther Reinhardt
- "Duranty, Stalin & Co." - by Eugene Lyons
- "Liquidation of a Church" - by Robert Dall
- "The Education of Judith Coplon"
May 1949
Vol. 3, No. 8 - May 1949 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler, John Chamberlain - Publisher: Alfred Kohlberg - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main story: "Portrait of Frederick Vanderbilt Field: Millionaire Communist"
- "Three Private Talks with Winston Churchill" - by General W. Anders
- "Moscow's Global Labor Front" - by Murray Kempton
- "The Bureaucrat in Politics" - by Alfred M. Cooper
- "Saving Marshall's Face" - by Rodney Gilbert
June 1949
Vol. 3, No. 9 - June 1949 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler, John Chamberlain - Publisher: Alfred Kohlberg - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main story: "Beginning John Dos Passos' Current Novel of New Deal Washington The Grand Design"
- "Shanghai Over Berlin: Stalin's Master Hoax Lattimore: Myth-Maker Our Silence in China"
- "Our Deportation Dilemma" - by Joseph A. Dear
- "Prison Labor Gassed in Siberia" - by N. Didenko
- "Churchill's Finest Hour" - by Leopold Schwarzschild
July 1949
Vol. 3, No. 10 - July 1949 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler, John Chamberlain - Publisher: Alfred Kohlberg - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main story: "Fifth Column Attack Hawaii: How to Capture an Island"
- "Behind John Gunther's Curtain"
- "Clare Boothe Luce exposes the Mystery of our China Policy"
- "The Grand Design" - by John Dos Passos
August 1949
Vol. 3, No. 11 - August 1949 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler, John Chamberlain - Publisher: Alfred Kohlberg - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main story: "First Full Publication of the Striking Summation to the Alger Hiss Jury by Government Prosecutor Thomas F. Murphy"
- "Hollywood's Red Fadeout?" - by Oliver Carlson
September 1949
Vol. 3, No. 12 - September 1949 - Editor: Isaac Don Levine - Managing Editor: Mabel Travis Wood - Contributing Editors: Eugene Lyons, Suzanne La Follette, George S. Schuyler, John Chamberlain - Publisher: Alfred Kohlberg - Copyright: Plain Talk, Inc.
- main story: "Our First Line of Defense" - by Isaac Don Levine
- "When Stalin Took a Walk" - by Sergei Maximov
- "That Toynbee Fish Story" - by Asher Brynes
- "Karl Marx: Father of Modern Anti-Semitism" - by Z. Dobbs
- "The Why of Human Action" - by Ludwig Von Mises
October 1949
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