FRANK COMMENT
NEW YORK PAPER NEW YORK, September 26. The "New York Times" says in an •editorial: "The Russians' insistent demands for a second front call for plain speaking. We are not in this war! to save Russia. She is not in this war to save us. She did not try to save Norway, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, or France in 1940; she did not lift a finger when the invasion of Britain seemed imminent. However, let it be admitted that she is no more selfish than were Britain or France when they abandoned | Czecho-Slovakia to the wolves or than we were when we connived at that betrayal. Self-preservation is Russia's first law. It is also ours. "Self-preservation dictates that Russia shall not risk permitting us to use Siberian bases against Japan, though
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 77, 28 September 1942, Page 5
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133FRANK COMMENT Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 77, 28 September 1942, Page 5
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