Russia, the From the outset it was obvious Net Gainer tom a war which offered ber the iner that Russia would be the gainer
spectacle of the other European Powers blowing each other to pieces while she sat at ease in the grandstand, observes "Truth." Suggestions have not been lacking that her diplomacy had long been working to achieve this very Object, and though her statesmen may be believed when they declare that they do not want. the war extended (which might endanger her neutrality), one is sceptical when they pose as champions of a general peace. Among the small neutrals, victims of the struggle between their great neighbours, the question is being asked more insistently: "In whose interest?" A typical comment is that of the Belgrade "Novosti":
"Europe today is not divided into two opposing camps, but into three. Two of them, in the hope of victory., bear all the risk of eventual defeat, while the Soviet's neutrality means that it takes none of the risks, but only shares the spoils."
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