GERMANYRUSSIA
From Moscow last week came a strong smell of diplomatic fermentation. On the eve of German Ambassador Friedrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg's return from a long stay in Berlin the Russian press made two significant announcements that: 1) 12,000 German troops had landed in Finland, within 50 miles of the Russian base at Hanko; 2) since March 18 shipment of war materials across the U.S.S.R. had been forbidden.
As always happens when Russia or Germany makes a move which by the use of a little imagination can be interpreted as hostile to the other, wistful thinkers saw in the first...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
