Foreign News: Alliance and Alliance

Without the help of the U. S. S. R. the Stop Hitler movement of Great Britain and France is a shaky business. If war comes the heavily fortified French-German frontier would probably be stalemated and big land battles would be fought in the open stretches of Eastern Europe. Poland and Rumania, Britain's new allies, would not be able to withstand the full force of a German offensive without help. If Germany controlled the Baltic and Italy cut the Mediterranean in two, that help could come only from the Soviet Union.

Last September the British...

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