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...Finland intact as a buffer against Russia. But the two peoples invariably get on each other's nerves. Business, trade and cultural interests strongly influenced Sweden to the pre-Hitler Germany. Now the Swedes despise the Germans. That leaves only Russia, which the Swedes learned to fear and distrust from their nursery rhymes, and the far-away U.S., where virtually every Swedish family has blood ties...
...Tradition. But no matter how logical it was, the dissolution was a tremendous act. It was not merely a protestation by Russia that she no longer distrusted the Western nations; it was also a protestation that they no longer had to distrust her. This protestation cost Stalin and the Soviet Government part of their tradition...
...suspension" of relations between the Russians and the Poles. The Poles had capped their old enmity toward Russia by supporting the Nazi propaganda story that 10,000 missing Polish officers had been found in mass graves in the forest of Katyn. Herr Goebbels said the Russians slaughtered them. Long distrust of Russia had conditioned the Poles to believe the German account. Without notifying either Britain or Russia, they fed the flames of anti-Soviet suspicion by demanding an International Red Cross investigation. The Red Cross (in Geneva) refused; the chastened Poles hastily announced that their request would "lapse...
...segment of U.S. opinion became snarled in a Russo-Polish controversy which played directly into the hands of German propaganda. Involved were ancient Russian and Polish hatreds, a current controversy over Poland's postwar boundaries, a widening breach between Moscow and exiled Polish Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski, and Catholic distrust of the U.S.S.R...
Long-haired, tiny-mustached M. Guigui read a prepared statement on French labor's resistance to Germany's manhunt for manpower. Then a London Daily Herald reporter asked: "To what extent do the French people distrust De Gaulle's Bonapartist tendencies...