Voice of Vice

// you desire to put your enemy in the wrong or even to damage his reputation blame him for the very vice which you feel in yourself.

--Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)

Moscow this week delivered another note to London in a series, beginning last November, in which Russia accuses Britain of violating the 1942 Anglo-Soviet (20year) treaty of alliance and mutual assistance. Said the Kremlin: Russia's armed forces were now reduced to their 1939 size and were only half the size of the "combined forces of 5,000,000" put under arms by the U.S., Britain and r ranee.

The obvious arithmetic of this is that Russia claims to have only 2,500,000 in her armed forces. Nations belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have 4,500,000 men under arms, including 2 -600,000 in ground units. The most reliable U.S. estimate of Communist forces gives Russia 4,000,000, Soviet European satellites 1,000,000 and Red China 5,000,000.

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