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Washington than they would have been under the presidency of Mr. Roosevelt. Mangeot reports that it is argued, as these hopes recede, the Soviet automatically toughens its attitude of exclusive economic control over the whole of eastern and southeastern Europe. In order to explain away the delays and disappointments in the progress of post-war construction within Russia itself, an increased dose of xenophobian propaganda for home consumption becomes somewhat of a necessity.
The second theory is that Molotoff's adamant attitude was an "argument from strength." Soviet morale is high. The Russians Relieve they, more than any other nation, won the war, and they believe they won it virtually single-handed, both against Germany and against Japan. Russia has extended her protection, though there are many persons who would put the word protection in quotations, to both Poland and Yugoslavia. Russia's refusal to compromise in London must be interpreted, in part at least, as a demonstration of power. It is a warning to such European countries as Greece, Italy, and Turkey, that Soviet good-will and protection arc to be prized above all others.
Mangeot concludes by saying that while these arc both theories, they arc "symptomatic of the present state of public opinion in the British Isles and they will persist until some far fuller official account is forthcoming. Insofar as the results of the Russian attitude is concerned, they may be
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summed up in the statement that they have effected a closer alliance, one upon the other, between Britain and France and a reliance of the two of them upon the United States.
In Moscow, the newspaper Pravda described Soviet acceptance of France in discussions of the peace treaty with Italy as a "compromise." The paper argued that the only countries who were entitled to be represented at the peace discussions were those who signed armistices with the warring Balkan powers.
In the meanwhile what do we see in Europe as the Soviet Union and its wartime allies continue to throw verbal bricks at each other? Bulgaria is rent with internal dissension. The agrarian and social democratic parties are in firm opposition to communistic leadership. On the other hand the present prime minister, Kimon Georgiev, shouts to the world that Bulgaria played an important part in the war against Germany. He runs the