Is Cripps Always Right?

One man who has been really right about World War II is Sir Richard Stafford Cripps. From the starting gun, he maintained that Britain's interest and Russia's were the same. In June 1940 the British Foreign Office sent him as Ambassador to Moscow, apparently as the easiest way to hush him up. Last week he addressed a paean to the Russian people, which if it was as right as his record, was good news. Of Hitler's invasion of Russia:

"Little did he know or understand the intense love of their homes and country which fills the hearts of Soviet citizens. He was blinded by his own lust for power so that he could not recognize the gallant strength of the Red Army, Navy and Air Force.

"But now, as the third year of war opens, he must look with different upon the folly of his attack upon the Soviet Union. With the flower of his Army stricken on the fields of the Soviet land, and with thousands of his tanks and air planes reduced to scrap, he must now with ever-growing fear at the forces of the enemy he once despised."

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