Foreign News: Hat In Hand

Russian diplomats last week were in a scurry, trying in a few days to undo their work of the last two years. While the Non-Aggression Pact with Germany was in force Russia had nimbly followed the Nazis' lead, as one country after another fell prey to Hitler, disowning their exiled governments, recognizing German sovereignty or puppet regimes. Now, as a half-digested German conquest herself, she wanted to make friends.

Fortunately for Russia, most of the friends she wanted were in London. Huddled there like a little League of Nations were the exiled governments...

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