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NATIONS often have a good deal of trouble understanding one another; and this is sometimes truest of countries whose most vital interests would benefit immeasurably by such an understanding.
For example, the British and ourselves have a thousand things in common, but we all know what the man meant who said that they and we are two nations divided by a common language. Now the stress of events and the compulsion of mutual interests
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I also hope and believe that the same stress and compulsion will cause us to know better, and to understand more clearly, our Russian allies who have made so tremendous a contribution to the battle for freedom and the future against the forces of barbarism.
It was in that belief, and in the hope that I might lend some slight aid toward that end, that I wrote "Mission To Moscow," the story of my ambassadorship to the Soviet Union. The book has been translated into nine languages and published in fourteen countries; and now that it has been made into a motion picture by Warner Brothers, I am happy to know that its message will be carried throughout this and other lands.
For I am convinced that the message is needed, and urgently. Russia is no longer far away; the airplane has seen to that. She is our ally and our neighbor, and in the present crisis we cannot afford to live by myths and miscomprehensions.
As a book and as a picture, "Mission To Moscow" is a one-hundred-percent American proposition. I think the essence of its message is summed up in a passage from one of my confidential reports to Secretary of State Cordell Hull:
"The resources of Russia, strategic and necessary in time of war, complement and supply the lack of those existing in the United States.
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