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...found out and took him to the church, talking about her atheism on the way. In the run-down structure Graebner saw that its worshipers were "mostly elderly women with pale, deeply lined faces partly covered with grey shawls. . . . Every few seconds they gave the sign of the cross or touched their foreheads to the floor. Most of them seemed much happier afterwards...
...Moscow Graebner found a cathedral, which holds about 3,000 "so tightly packed that we could hardly get inside the door, and more people were coming every minute." Again the congregation had many past middle age, "but there were more young people, children and Red Army men than I expected...
...Graebner's verdict: "It may be that, as the Soviet Union grows older, it is taking a less stern attitude toward religion. This is certainly what the Government would like the world to think. Many, however, feel that the changed attitude is more a wartime expediency than the real thing. . . . Most foreign observers . . . believe that the Kremlin is basically just as anti-religious as it ever was. But no one knows for sure...
...rationed," and "even Government officials cannot control themselves at the sight of food." Concluded some observers: "The annual civilian consumption in Russia is less than the annual civilian waste in the United States," and "by comparison, even Germany - as late as 1939 -was a land of luxury." Correspondent Graebner believes that such self-sacrifice, added to the staggering losses at the front, is borne less because the dictatorship decrees that it must be than because of patriotism and popular faith in the national leadership. To those with whom he spoke, Socialism meant "there'll always...
Brotherhood Is Scarce. Through both these books, warning steadily of tragic postwar possibilities, runs the theme of international suspicions and hatreds. Mutual dislike was a feature common to the letters Graebner found on Austrian, Ba varian and Prussian soldiers. Lack of a second front, says Graebner, has turned many Russians against Britain and America. Occupied Persia fears Russia, is "sick and tired" of the British, accepts Americans enthusiastically only, perhaps, because they are "new." Graebner believes that American popularity is dwindling in Trinidad, South America and the Middle East as a result of violent "bad behavior" on the part...