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. & age. a ‘o the Editor of The Herald: Your editorial, “The Russian Rid- +|dles.” makes one remember that the "military experts” have been wrong from the time the war began in| ‘|1939. They believed that the French ate had a fine, strong army and that the Russians had a miserable, weak one, shot through with disloyally, and with both officers and men oo stupid to Understand mechanized implements of war, while the Rus- sian alr force was a “joke"j Of course Stalin always kept the real strength of his army oe close secret because he knew that Russia had only one loyal ally ip the world! Crechoslovakia. Stalin knew well! that the Prenoch meant to betray him: to Hitler, as the French betrayed the British in June, 1940, and that the French would make « sudden peace! with Hitler and leave Russia (Lf, Stalin bad jolned France and Eng-- land as an ally in 1939) to bear al) the burden of the war against Ger-! mahy Charles Lindbe gh's ous! in 1938. The Russians did pot trust undbergh end déliberately misled! ‘yn by showing him She weakes( Art of their air force, Russia and Germany in 1$40 had’ "lhe only two modern armies in the world. The Prench, who sncered ai Stalin and nis Russian army for 20, years, are today the contempt of aL other races, after their cowardly and ‘|treacherous behavior in 1940. The. Prench have to start from scratch ‘Inow to build up their prestige and. national character again. Old Petalo. who betrayed France to Hitler. is now howling with alarm anddTing- ing bis treacherous old hands as he 300 Frenchme t_in ] a*