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...moral side, Russia's Lubimov pointed out that Tsarist Russia exported nearly twice as much wheat as her nearest competitor, and that no one called this morally wrong. Today Soviet Russia cannot by the wildest excess of dumping export as much wheat as her largest competitor, which, of course, is Canada.* Therefore, in Moscow's view, whatever Soviet Russia does or can do in the way of wheat exportation, she will be not less, but more generous to her competitors than Tsarist Russia...
...revolution, the U. S., Canada, Australia and Argentina greatly increased their acreage "spurred by high prices, patriotic appeals, or both" as Sam McKelvie put it last week. Having increased their acreage these nations now have "a vested interest" of which only cruelty could deprive them and cruelty would be wrong...
...well worth the time and energy, and it was all so faultlessly handled that a baby could not have gone wrong! I have never seen anything so marvelous and stately...
Schliemann discovered too much at Troy; not one stratum but several. The level at which he found the treasure he naturally wanted to believe was the Homeric city, but scholars, still disagreeing among themselves, now think Schliemann was probably wrong. A richer find-richest of all archeological finds-Schliemann made four years later, at Mycenae, Greece. His excavations at the ancient sites of Orchomenos and Tiryns were only slightly less fortunate...
...haven't you heard? I am a Russian now. My husband is assistant commissar of foreign affairs." As though stung by a hornet, Lord Cushendun recoiled, never thereafter greeted Mme Litvinov more enthusiastically than by a curt nod. From the London standpoint she is a Tory journalist gone wrong, and "Mr. Harrison" should have remained a traveling salesman...