Foreign News: A Lesson in Maneuver

The Poles say that the Russians are Slavs, but that the Poles are Slavs with hearts. The Russians say that the Poles learn nothing and forget nothing. Europeans in general say that Poland cannot exist as a nation without the friendship of either Germany or Russia, who for centuries have used Poland's flat land as a battleground, between Slavs and Teutons.

No monument to U.S., British, Russian or Polish diplomacy was the climactic culmination of errors which brought last week's "suspension" of relations between the Russians and the Poles. The Poles had capped their old enmity toward Russia by supporting the Nazi...

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