RUSSIA: What Molotov Wants

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Last week biggest news was the fact that Germany did not invade Great Britain. Involved in this news was the apparently insignificant circumstance that, years ago, a proletarian Russian named Alexander Shkvartsev took the trouble to learn German. Little Alexander Shkvartsev is the new Soviet Ambassador to Germany.

Last winter he and Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop spent several pleasant evenings together at the cinema in Berlin. Going and coming, they would chat about the new friendly relations that had grown up between their two countries. But for the last...

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