"Thus was repeated on a far larger scale the same kind of outrage against every form of signed contract and international faith which we have witnessed in Norway, Denmark. Holland and Belgium, and which Hitlers accomplice and jao! Mussolini, so faithfully violated in the case of Greece.
"All this was no surprise to me. In fact I gave clear and precise warning to Stalin of what was coming. I gave him warning as I have given warnings to others before. I only hope these warnings did not fall unheeded.
"All we know at present is that the Russian people are defending their native soil and that their leaders have called upon them to resist to the utmost,
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