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dem 1) Your editorial, “The Russian Rid- slates. makes one remember that the 1/"miltary experts” have been wrong from the time the war began in| 1939. They believed that the Prench| had a fine, strang army and that the; Russians had a miserable, weak one, shot through with disloyslty, and with both officers and men too stupid to understand mechanized implements of war, while tbe Rus- sian alr force was a “j Of course Stalin als kept the real strength of his army a close secret because he knew that Russiay had only one loyal ally is the world.. Crechoslovaiia. Stalin knew well! that the Prench meant to betray him’ to Hitler, as the Prench betrayed the Briush in June, 1940, and that the Prench would make # sudden peace! with Hider and leave Russia (lf, Bialin bad jolned Prance and Eng- land as an ally in 1939) to bear all the burden of the war against Ger-' ny. * Charles Linde: hs i serve toritelt is a Byward | in 1938. The ‘Russians did ‘bot ‘rust! Andbergh and déliberately misled’ ‘Im by showing him “he weakes( Art of their air farce. Russia and Germany in 1640 had the only two modern armies in the world. The French, who sncered at Stalin and nis Russian army for 24 years, are today the contempt of al: other races, after their cowardly and treacherous behavior in 1940. The French have to start from scratch E -|now to build up their prestige and. if ]/pational character again. Old Petain. i|®ho betrayed France to Hitler. is . . ‘|now howling with alarm anddfing- ef ing his treacherous old hands as he i sees 200 Frenchmen abyi_in_ogid | -|plood “E, S. 4 > z a og: am G Beh es ro