THE NATIONS: Voice of Vice

// you desire to put your enemy in the wrong or even to damage his reputation blame him for the very vice which you feel in yourself.

—Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)

Moscow this week delivered another note to London in a series, beginning last November, in which Russia accuses Britain of violating the 1942 Anglo-Soviet (20year) treaty of alliance and mutual assistance. Said the Kremlin: Russia's armed forces were now reduced to their 1939 size and were only half the size of the "combined forces of 5,000,000" put under arms by the U.S., Britain...

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