World War: Unmaltreated Nobody

Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov addressed a violent memorandum last week to all nations with which he deals, complaining of German atrocities against Soviet prisoners of war: "Miserable rations of rotten bread or rotten potatoes . . . hands cut off. eyes gouged, stomachs ripped open . . . raping and outraging of the honor of women . . . stripping the wounded naked. . . ."

The Germans produced for the foreign press Georg, only son of Foreign Commissar Molotov, as proof that Foreign Commissar Molotov was lying. Georg, the spokesman pointed out,...

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