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Show Russia's Background Forms Her Attitude I . saw him again with a small group after his return and he reminded re-minded us that Russia's attitude must be considered against her background, that she was a nation which had been virtually locked up for 25 years and during all that time had heard nothing but epithets j against her, that she had cultivated the habit of slapping back twice as bard whenever she heard anything she thought was criticism against her. Thus, a defense psychology was built up, a suspicious attitude toward the whole world, which made the Soviet psychology entirely different differ-ent from ours. Each had much to learn from the other, both must improve, im-prove, and that, Hull said, would take time. I He felt very much the same way when he concluded his memoirs this year and offered this advice: "In dealing with the Soviet Union we must never waver in this determination or give any evidence of weakness, or cease to insist that, although she is entitled en-titled to freedom from intervention inter-vention in her domestic affairs by any other nation, her government govern-ment has no right to force communism com-munism on other nations or to Intervene in their domestic affairs af-fairs in any other way." |