Straws in tha Wind
Straws in tha Wind About a year ago, in a Russian magazine—and all Soviet magazines reflect the official view—there was a story. Some of you may remember Daudet's story The Latt Clan, picturing the...
...Leaia, quoted with approving comment by Stalin in 1»*8 in Pravda...
...SATS STALIN 'The prolonged extatemeo of the Soviet Republic, aide by aide with the imperialist states, la aatbhtkabte...
...Except that —if the issue ever arises—the Soviets have already declared that Russisn land belongs to the people, and that no Tsar ever had any right to dispose of what belonged to the people...
...The populace stsnds with bowed heads, hoping that some day they will see their beloved flag rise again...
...Nothing more...
...Embassy tells the story of the efforts to lay a cable across the north Pacific, when Russia owned Alaska And all through the account the word "Russia" is used—until the final paragraph...
...In exactly the ssme mood of nostolgic regret, this Soviet story pictures the hsuling down of the Russian flag over Alaska, when that territory was sold to the United States...
...Until this happens, a series Of terrible COolicta between the Soviet Republic and the bourgeois states are inevitable...
...Finally, either the one or the other will be Victorious...
...Tha official bulletin of the U.S.S.R...
...of course...
...Some of you may remember Daudet's story The Latt Clan, picturing the sad occasion when the teaching of French was forbidden in Alsace-Lorraine (after 1870) and the teaching in German was about to begin...
...Just a slight turn of phrase...
...Then, it mentions that all this came to an end, when Alaska was sold to the USA—by the Tea nut regime...
...WAR WITH CAPITALISM INEVITABLE...
...purely a rhetorical device, for variety...
...Thkt story of a year ago was followed ay another a few weeks ago—a trifle...
Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 46
