Ideological political differences between nations are often overlooked when the pocketbook is concerned. Anti-Communist Germany was at one time the chief seller of goods to Soviet Russia and. although trade between the two countries is gradually drying up, as late as 1937 15% of Russia's imports came from Germany. Last week the Soviet Union made a new pocketbook deal with Italy, where the Anti-Comintern pact originated. Under a barter arrangement, trade between the two nations is expected to hit $52,675,000 annually, almost two and a half times the volume provided by their...
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