Speaking of the Red Air Forcë recently, Soviet statesmen declared:—"This mags of lethal metal which [can be flown an enormous distance could serve as a good Soviet straight-Jacket for aggressors should they, in a ft of madness, attack the Soviet Compulsory military service has been continuously maintained since,}1917, and Russia has always considered herself in a state of war and maintained a high pitch of defensive preparedness. As recently as_a month ago M. Stalin declared: Red Army has been rear: and re-equipped in the light of experience of the present war," and it is well no other power had achieved, namely, smashing a way through' a fortified line zeckonéd nearly as strong as the Siegfried and Maginot line, which even Hitler decided to go round.
That her military chiefs are not Jecking in enterprise or ingenuity is evidenced by that daring attack on the Finnish mainland by a light armoured column across 60 miles of the frozen gulf of Finland.
Finally, in assessing the position must be remembered that fighting is now taking place across just that frontier which has been strategically enlarged solely for defence purposes ¢/@Rainst just such an attack and at the risk of being charged by the rest of the world with "imperialist" expansion.
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