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for The news from the USSR, while stili not much very hain finite can be said, take on an increasingly alaming tum which it would be supreme madness to overlook, It is better in is case just to report facts - because these facts must create a sense of great urgency in every interested person, It should be clearly understood, that the athmosphere of all dispatches rea ching us from Moscow is as follows : something very big is under way. It is maybe not for tomorrow, But certainly some very great policy decisions have been taken, which will mould the shape of lihings to come, And all the Soviet moves must henceforth be interpreted as pieces of a puzzle, which, if jointly observed, might give us the pattern of things to come. The first and foremost thing to observe, is the aan incredible "hate America" campaign carried out in all Russia campaign which has gone to pitches of violence even uninown the very worst hours of the Ilya Ehrenburg "hate Germany" drive during world war II, The technique is definitely more perfect than in the past, And really every single devise of public res lations is used in the drive, Foreigners are impressed by Pravda, Izvestia, Trud, Red Star and by the Moscow Radio. But these are by far not the worst. The most violent are the local papers, the local radios, the schools, the party~brenches etc. In fact it has gone so far, that the average man in Russia now fully believeg in the imminence of war. But it is interesting to note, that the people do not fully believe the drive. As far as our obser= vers make out, the reaction is as follows : the average Russian sees Brom this drive with greatest apprehension, that war is both imminent and inevitable, He accepts it with sullen resignain person and live on the heroic tales of the schooli He does not believe what he is told, but has no means to find out how far it is true and how far it is just plain lies, He is quite unhappy about it, but does not even conveive the idea that he could do something to avoid the unpleasant future, The average Russian considers the coming war as an inevitable catastrphe, such as a fire or an earthquake, fhe second most important fact is, that very discreetly but with absolute consistency, new classes are called up for the Red Amye fhe two classes which were to be demobilizeé in the first half of this year have been maintained under arms. There have been B. a4.
