Foreign News: Sarcasm

An opinion from Russia on the United States policy of nonrecognition, published by the Pravda:

"When capitalistic farmers have nowhere to sell their produce and are compelled to burn or throw their grain into the water, and when the industrial capitalists, owing to the same fact, are compelled to cut down production, then a cause is easily created for humanitarian action and for philanthropy. . . . We, therefore, quite understand the noble feelings of Mr. Hughes, and do not doubt the humane feelings of the American Government."

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