With categoric correctitude, Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov called in the foreign press. He wanted the world to know: 1) that the Red Army had gone beyond Soviet frontiers for the first time since the Germans attacked in June 1941; 2) that the Kremlin had taken pains to inform London and Washington of the step in advance.
Said Molotov, in part: "Beginnings have been made in the full re-establishment of the Soviet frontier as fixed in 1940 in accordance with the agreement between Soviet Russia and Rumania [and] treacherously violated by the...
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