Everything depends upon these modern strategical factors, and we! can only await the further development of the battle. It seems clear that Russia is firmly united in its resolve to defend the Fatherland to the utmost and that those who were hoping for internal dissension are going to be disappointed. From Stalin downwards, members of the Government are confident of victory.
We have seen arising out of this latest, piece of Nazi treachery political development of no little importance. Vichy has obeyed its master and broken off relations with Russia, while ordering the wholesale arrest of Russians in France—the country in which political emigres were tradi-
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