Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Convenes Its First Meeting

Mr. Schmemann, an Opinion writer, is a former Moscow bureau chief of The Times.

To anyone who spent time in the old U.S.S.R., President Trump’s newly hatched “Board of Peace,” which holds its first meeting on Thursday at the newly rechristened Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, evokes worrying echoes.

Nobody loved peace as much as the Soviet people, or at least it seemed that way in the cascade of official proclamations. It was professed on billboards and May Day slogans and in “peace cruises” down the Volga at which starry-eyed foreigners were invited to sing “We Shall Overcome” with brightly........

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