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...plane carrying America's No. 1 Russophile on Mission II to Moscow circled down at the Soviet capital with an escort of five fighters. On his head energetic, individualistic ex-Ambassador Joe Davies wore the first Panama hat seen in Moscow in many a day. Under his arm he tightly pressed the brief case holding a private letter from Franklin Roosevelt to Joseph Stalin...
Joseph Davies was off this week on a second mission to Moscow. In his well-packed luggage the rich, Russophile ex-Ambassador to Russia carried enough de hydrated foods of the right kind to humor his delicate stomach (he had rested for three weeks in Boston's Lahey Clinic pre paring for the trip). More important, in his brief case he bore a note whose con tents were known only to Franklin Roosevelt and his secretary, Grace Tully - a note addressed personally to Joseph Stalin...
There are some signs that the Party may respond further. In Moscow recently a new book by ex-Ambassador Alexander Antonovich Troyanovski explaining U.S. war motives was published, with a first printing of 15,000 copies. The head of Tass, the news agency by which all foreign news is obtained for Russian papers, has for some time been getting up at 6 every morning to study English. He has had correspondents in Geneva, Stockholm. London, Teheran, New York, Ankara and Chungking...
...addition to national speeches 'and articles in which Grew has stressed the endurance and fanaticism of Japan, the ex-ambassador last fall wrote an article for the CRIMSON warning college students that they were marked college students that they were marked for slaughter by the Axis in the eventuality of a defeat of the United Nations...
...reasonably sure of the future. Once we were fighting alone; now the most powerful nations in the world are on our side. China will not collapse. We are much more hopeful than ever before," the ex-ambassador revealed...