Show aa 0 o u W washington D 0 significance OF RUSSIAN BLAST members of the diplomatic corps who have lived beside russia and dealt with her diplomats for years point to some significant things about the pravda report which set the world on its eat about the british negotiating a separate peace with nazi foreign minister trop in the first place diplomats point out that had the report been published in it would have been much more serious is the organ of the soviet government and anything appearing therein can be considered the gospel views of the kremlin itself how however pravda organ or of th the C communist party is one step removed and anything published in it can be interpreted as close to but not necessarily representing the views of stalin thus it was pravda which dropped a ton of editorial bricks on the unsuspecting well intentioned head of wendell winkle hitherto considered dussias Rus sias best friend that editor editorial lal rebuke came after willete e had discussed the polish boundary question in a manner quite sympathetic to russia however the russians chose to rebuke their best friend as a warning to president roosevelt an and I 1 secretary hun hull that they did not wan want the polish question discussed at all not even by their friends they could not very well come out and rebuke hull and roosevelt so they chose a prominent american one step removed figuring hun hull and roosevelt would take the hint therefore remembering that russian diplomatic moves are usually aimed obliquely at something on the other side of the billiard table here is the diplomatic coris explanation of the latest pravda thrust against the british for about two years it has been no secret that the british have hung back regarding a second front in western europe it is also no secret that right down to the teheran conference churchill pulled tor for a balkan front or almost any other front except a western front PUTTING BRITISH ON SPOT stalin isa Is a man who never tor for gets and even it if no friction had occurred at teheran he would have continued to be suspicious about british intentions of a second front invite of the two years of second front debate and on top of teheran plus Chur chills long stay in africa suspicions may be boiling again therefore point out the diplomats what could be more adroit than to put the british squarely on the spot by subtly accusing them of talking to the nazis about a separate peace in other words after the pravda article the british now have to prove they want no separate peace by pushing ahead with the second front if they delay it then the russians can point to the suspicion no matter how untrue that perhaps the british were talking to after all which of course they the pravda publication fits in especially at this time when there actually have been some hints in official circles circle that the russians are doing so well that the nazis will surrender soon then we need a second front its complicated but the russian mind is complicated and russian diplomacy even more so SOFTENING NING CASUALTY MESSAGES the war department has received many letters recently from min ministers and private families is suggesting t that instead of sending casualty casually messages by telegram to bereaved families they be sent to a committee of pastors in each community one of whom would then deliver the message and seek to soften the blow of the tragic news so far however the war department has taken the position that it should continue delivery of the casualty messages by western union messenger boy army officials argue that delivery by a clergyman would cause contusion confusion and delay and that a clergyman might not be available at the time or he might lack proper and immediate transportation also the army argues that a casualty message has a high priority which means that its transmission is expedited and this might be offset by delay at the receiving end if the message had to pass through the hands of a clergyman CAPITAL CHAFF fl 6 when diplomats run out of liquor a story carlos campbell of the chilean embassy burst into the office of chilean ambassador mich els saying don rodolfo please lend me a case of wine tor for tonight im having a party I 1 1 I cant do it replied the ambassador 1 I have no wine myself fl C 1 in the library of congress Con giess back numbers of esquire are kept in the delta collection a special collection of sex books and other erotica avail a ble able to adults not to adolescents |