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AT first sight the release of Comrade Ivanoff, following so closely on Marshal Chang Tso-lin's very plain-spoken note to the Soviet Ambassador, gave the disagreeable impression of a climb-down.. But reconsiderajon suggests that the Marshal has acted wisely. Nothing was to be gained by drawing China ito a war with Russia. What to be demonstrated was the tutorial nature of the Soviet's conduct in Manchuria, its unmodified acceptance of the old Tsarist policy of acquisitiveness and the precise value of its prostations, of friendship. AB a igh Kuominchun offieet says to Mr. Rodney Gilbert: "I am glad
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