RUSSIA: Greatest Democracy

Eddie Rickenbacker liked Russia. He liked the passionate conviction of ultimate victory, the keen and capable Red pilots, the fertile look of tilled fields spread out below and the way the Russians deal with absenteeism in factories.

Rickenbacker's wartime speeches have been anti-labor and anti-Red; back last week from a three-month, 55,000-mile air tour of world battlefronts, he said that:

> The Russian war effort "is the greatest all-out effort in the world."

> Bolshevism "is not what we have been led to believe by ... enthusiasts."

> The Russians "have been...

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