Everybody's Friend

Everbody's Friend

Moscow's air-conditioned political climate stayed steady as a glacier. Moscow's millions raised no visible eyebrow, spoke no audible comment on Generalissimo Stalin's blast at ex-Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

But Russians abroad could at least be asked for comment. A Stars and Stripes reporter in Vienna polled 33 Red Army men on Churchill's speech and got these results:

One, shaking hands with himself, said vigorously: "Roosevelt, Churchill--all good!" Another said simply that the Red Army was the most powerful in the world. A third grinned: "Russia is everybody's friend." A fourth thought Churchill an American, had never heard of Truman. None of the 33 knew that Churchill had made a speech.

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