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...Provisional Government in 1917, overthrown and exiled by Lenin, spoke up at a meeting of the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan for the U.S.S.R.'s territorial claims in eastern Poland and the Baltic States, declared that for Russia to give up these claims was like asking the "U.S. to disannex its possessions or . . . part of its own borders." Hedged anti-Communist Kerensky: "I am still the implacable enemy of the . . . dictatorship in Moscow. But since the first day of the (German) invasion, I have supported . . . the war aims of my country, Russia. I make a distinction between Stalin, the national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 25, 1944 | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

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