Joseph Stalin last week gave the world a two-part lesson in Russian diplomacy.
In the main, it was a tough lesson in tough diplomacy, the kind that Russians practice and understand.
Red Army troops drawn up in the review and the Russian people listening in on radios to Stalin's May 1 Order of the Day last week heard him use, for the first time, the unqualified Casablanca phrase: "Unconditional surrender." They heard him refer, with a warmth and force he had never before displayed, to the "gallant Anglo-American air forces" over Europe, to "the victorious troops" in North Africa, and to "one...
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