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Admitting the Russia was a "dictatorship," Wallace said that Russians "do not enjoy freedom as we enjoy it," but said that they have more freedom than they ever had before, and that "they feel more a part of the present show that they ever did of the Czarist show...
...migrations of their nationals to the Baltics, and the Russians like to come, because they find life there more agreeable than back home. "Russification" proceeds apace. In Tallinn, for example, birth announcements reveal half as many newborn Russians as Estonians. Many schools and churches are closed; Russian (as in Czarist days) has become the official language, and Communism the official religion...
...Czarist or Bull Moose Russia could very conceivably have the present Soviet Government's aims in world affairs. Assuming this, the United States could still oppose Russian aims and distrust American Communists. But there would be no connection between our attitude towards Russia and our feeling towards Communists. The point, then, is that we should deal with Russia as we would with any great power and keep the issue of American Communists out of the realm of foreign affairs...
Viewed strictly in terms of self-interest, the President's proposal is both legal and logical. The British, for more than one hundred years, have been actively engaged in halting the expansion of Russia, whether czarist or communist, in the direction of the Dardanelles. Since shortly after the end of World War II, British troops have been stationed in Greece, ostensibly to "see that democracy is reestablished." If her historic policy in the Mediterranean is insufficient proof, then her tacit approval of the present corrupt reactionary Tsoldaris government demonstrates that the first intention of the British government is to halt...
...last visit to the Soviet Union, the ex-official of the War Production Board Recalled sounding everybody as best he could from Number One Down to discredited ex-czarist ballerinas. He found the citizens of the U.S.S.R. convinced that they are moving alone the torrent of an historically determined mission, with force as the logical last appeal...