List of Plain Talk (magazine) issues

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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

 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - October 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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - November 1946

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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - December 1946

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

 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - January 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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - February 1947

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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - March 1947

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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - April 1947

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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - May 1947

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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - June 1947

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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - July 1947

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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - August 1947

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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - September 1947

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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - October 1947

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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - November 1947

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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - December 1947

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

 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - January 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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - February 1948

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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - March 1948

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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - April 1948

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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - May 1948

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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - June 1948

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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - July 1948

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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - August 1948

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
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - September 1948

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?"
 
Plain Talk Magazine Cover - October 1948

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"
 
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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
 
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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"

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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
 
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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"
 
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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
 
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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"
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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
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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

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