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...Ocean) and the Persian Gulf flank India, reach into some of the world's richest oil areas, and may yet be Russian outlets to the south -as, until recently, they were Russia's inlet for Lend-Lease. And adjoining the Arab heartland lie Turkey and Iran - both Mos em but non-Arab -looking out on the Black Sea and the Caspian, which wash at Russia's outward gates...
...long-simmering pot of Polish-Russian relations this week finally boiled over and spilled its lava-hot contents into the laps of Britain and the U.S. In Mos cow, Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov handed Polish Ambassador Tadeuz Romer a note: ". . . the Soviet Government has decided to sever relations with the Polish Government." Thus Polish-Russian amity ended with the first break between two members of the United Nations...
...violent one in Moscow, to the Cabinet overturn in Tokyo, to the tension in London; it was more nearly akin to the crisis of a fever, when the hearing is confused, the mind wanders, and fitful and disjointed images fill the brain. For the Nazis the advance on Mos cow was simple-this was the sixteenth time in two years they were moving upon the capital of another country. For the conquered countries of Europe it was equally simple-if Moscow falls it will be the sixteenth defeat, without one victory. For the Communists, the Marxists-for innumerable reformers...
Russia had been a good friend to China in the past few years; Russian arms had helped to keep China fighting. Chinese realized last week that their own security depended on the resistance of Russian soldiers on the bloodstained field of Mos cow as well as in the windswept valley of Siberia's Amur River. If Germany "and Japan won, between them they might force any peace they wished on China...
...Tolerant' is the wrong word. I don' know jest how to put it. Let's say Harvard is better to us than mos' colleges. I don' like that word 'tolerant...