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...British official in Delhi last week said, "This is the most important British diplomatic effort of the century," he had in mind the danger that a failure to settle the Indian problem would keep the whole East in turmoil and disturb international relations throughout the world by presenting Rus sia with an opportunity to increase her influence among Asia's people...
...Stanford has announced a Pacific-Asiatic-Russian study program leading to a B.A. degree in the humanities. Students can major in 1) China, 2) Japan, 3) Rus sia, or 4) Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands...
...Information Bureau, member of the all-powerful Politburo, chief of the Red Army's political department, secretary of the Central Communist Party, and political boss of Moscow; of a heart ailment; in Moscow. Politico Shcherbakov's death, on the first day of European peace, was pronounced "Rus sia's greatest wartime casualty." Died. ThomasMontgomery Howell, 63, tiny, bigtime fisherman and Wall Street speculator ("the wizard of the grain pit"); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1931, Iowa-born Trader Howell manipu lated a squeeze on the Chicago market, grabbed 70% of all visible corn, made himself a cool...
Sirs: Apropos U.S.-Soviet relations, your readers might be interested in the following poem by A. P. Herbert, written in 1942, when the Russians were calling loudly for a second front. This would seem to show that the British can say what they think about Rus sia, without endangering international friend ship...
...Adolf Hitler. He believed that the Russian Orthodox priests and their congregations would flock to the side of Rus sia's Nazi invaders, who would free them from the persecuting Bolsheviks. What Hitler did not foresee was that his inva sion would turn Russia from a country in which a majority of defenseless Christians was ruled by an aggressive anti-religious minority into a nation in arms, in which the majority, though intensely patriotic, was no longer defenseless...