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...your recent change in editorial policy in regard to the USSR, I have been prompted to take you to task. Aping Hearst you 1 unleashed a vicious, slanderous attack upon Soviet Union. Among your crimes are truths, distortions, over-zealous imagination just plain out-in-out lying...
...pronouncements by his associates. What the Russians fear is that in case of a war with the Japanese the rest of the capitalist powers are going to gang up on Russia and engage in a good deal of international eye-gouging and groin-kicking at the expense of the USSR; if Germany and other European states launch an attack upon Russia at the same time that Japan does, it is obvious that the results are going to be pretty sad for the proletariat...
...toward war with all the finality and inevitableness of a Greek tragedy. Yesterday Japan intimated unofficially that friction would be most easily reduced if the Soviet would withdraw the large forces which it has concentrated in Siberia. At the same time, in Moscow, Molotov, Russian premier, declared that the USSR was prepared for a surprise attack by Japan, and, in fact, expected it. Both these declarations by statesmen of countries supposedly at peace have almost no precedent, and show with disconcerting clearness how imminent a possibility is war in the Far East...
June 15 ? Sixteenth national congress of the Communist Party; at Moscow, USSR...
...this case of "Russia" is only one of many that--through changes of name that reflect political changes--illustrate the great readjustment this decade has caused in the world. Russia becomes the USSR, St. Petersburg becomes Petrograd, and Petrograd becomes Leningrad. Czecho-Slovakia achieves unity and statehood. The Slavs of southern Europe get together, and Jugoslavia is a new reality with the high title of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Thus the old order changeth...