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...What Then? What the Russians will do then, say the Russians now, all depends. The Russians feel that by accepting enormous losses, such as would take a generation or two to mend, they could crush Hitler alone. But they do not choose to do that. The Red Army, said Stalin's Order, was "not created for the purpose of conquest of foreign countries, but to defend the frontiers of Soviet land." The Russians intend to have some army left to fight the peace with, too. Therefore, if the Allies have not moved on the Continent by the time Russia...
...Churchillian gifts of caprice and phrase made him add that if the Labor Party and the Tory Party did not mend their ways "a party of the center" may emerge and throw them. Observers noted the similarity between some of Churchill's ideas and those of a new political (ginger) group which has emerged officially under the title Common Wealth...
This training situation is somewhat on the mend. At scores of civilian fields, a new supplemental pilot program was under way this week, managed...
...honestly nuts to get up and jump and I'm crazy about this outfit. But it's a little funny. I've never been in a plane in my life." He jumped, sprained both legs. Undaunted, he will jump from a plane when his legs mend...
Part II, The World Is Your Adventure, settles down to Russia proper. It is the summer of great famine; the New Economic Policy is but a few months old. The torn political-economic tissues-which had bound Russia to Western Europe are beginning to mend, and European capitalists are coming to Moscow "like so many giant corpuscles working towards an abscess." Corpuscle Haverkamp and Corpuscle Champcenais are among them; their attitude towards Soviet Russia is that of imperial colonizers toward a savage kingdom. Warmer and more confused is the attitude of Minister Buitton and Jerphanion, who is his secretary...