Word: angarstroi
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...U.S.S.R. openly accused a Japanese submarine of torpedoing the 4,761-ton Russian freighter Angarstroi, which sank 32 miles off the Japanese coast...
Significant of new tension in Soviet-Japanese relations was the fact that Russia had waited since May 1, when the Angarstroi was sunk, to bring into the open its charge against Japan, with whom it has a year-old Neutrality Pact. If things were going peacefully, Russia would be unlikely to engage in public recrimination. Significant, too, was the fact that through the strict Soviet censorship last week came this sentence in a dispatch from Walter Kerr of the New York Herald Tribune: "The Soviet Union has done everything possible under the circumstances to fulfill its obligations under the Pact...
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