political expediency

"With the tacit encouragement of the western powers, Horthy launched a reign of counterrevolutionary, anti-Semitic terror that far exceeded in cruelty and scale the repressions of the Reds.", pg 22 [выделено мной - вс] - Koestler

там же

Equally fascinating to Koestler was a Times editorial on the treaty of Prosmouth between the Russian tsar and the emperor of Japan to end the Russo-Japanese war. The editorial extolled the virtues of the victorious Japanese, their "subordination of the individual to the tribes and the state", and their "monastic discipline", which it contrasted with the "excessive individualism" of the West., pg.3

вообще книгу придется, вероятно, купить когда paperback выйдет. там целыми страницами можно подчеркивать.