The Archive · 1940

Second Illusion Shattered

Thus the second illusion about Soviet Russia as the inexhaustible source of raw materials has been shattered within five months since signing of the pact of friendship.

These happenings brought about a change in the world's valuation of Soviet Russia. Gradually the opinion that mighty Russia is an entirely rotten and disorganized nation fit for destruction is gaining foot in the West as well as in the East. Practically always at present Communism is quoted simultaneously with Na-5 tional Socialism as one of the greatest Q|enemies of humanity and many statesmen wonder whether the time is not ripe to destroy both of them. The sooner this happens, the better.

In a will filed in Memphis, Tennessee, appears the "bequest." "To -|my chauffeur I leave my cars, as he has almost ruined them, and T want him to have the satisfaction of finishing the job."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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