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Show Soviet Puzzle The diplomats of the world have not yet come to any agreement regarding the implications of! Russia's announcement that the sixteen component states of the U. S. S. R. will have fuull diplomatic diplo-matic andmilitay autonomy. There has been considerable speculation, with some observers believing that the move results from an effort to stabilize internal in-ternal affairs within the Soviet and others taking the view that it represents a slick manoeuve to magnify the diplomatic power of the Soviet in interantional affairs. af-fairs. The experts find it hard to understand un-derstand why a great power, in the midst of a life and death struggle, should emphasize the right of each unit to establish its own army, to conduct its own foreign affairs and to secede, if desired, from the Soviet. While there is a general willingness will-ingness to await developments and to see how the Russians work out the matter the suspicion is general that the sudden freedom of the sixteen republics contains more than meets the eye. This is not" to !Kert"imrtheTe" is deep suspicion of the Coviet; rather, let us say there is a curious in-quisitiveness in-quisitiveness which only the future fu-ture will satisfy. |