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Show More Supplies' To Russia M1nfTL,,nCl0n, comes the news that the United Nations, taking advantage of the reopening of (he Mediterranean, have greatly increased the flow increased the flow of supplies to Russia by way ol the Iran corridor. In addition, acording to the London dispatch, British and A-menans A-menans are carying goods further fur-ther along the mountainous 800-mile 800-mile route between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian than they did several months ago. Whereas our soldiers formerly drove their trucks to Kazvin, a-bout a-bout one hundred miles northwest north-west of Teheran, they now carry them to Pahlevi, on the Caspian, where the Russians can move them more quickly into the Soviet Union. The material assistance that the United States and Great Britain have given to the Soviet Union, in the course of the present pres-ent war, will one day be regarded as one of the great accomplishments accomplish-ments of the present struggle. When the future historian takes cognizance of the fact that both nations were engaged in two major wars at the time they delivered vast suplies to their ally, who held aloof from their war with Japan, the magnitude and importance of the undertaking under-taking will be better appreciated. |