A file of rust-pocked freighters dropped anchor last week in Archangel's harbor. These ships of the United Nations had come to Russia's great Arctic seaport on a mission far different from the one in which ships of the same nations had been engaged 24 years ago. In 1918 Allied ships had put ashore at Archangel expeditionary forces to fight Red revolutionaries; this time the nations of the West brought supplies to an embattled Red Army. The safe arrival of the convoy meant more, however, than a complete turn in the wheel of history. It meant a new supply route to...
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