
MOSCOW is at work in China as if it possessed two faces and two souls, and this is indeed the truth. One is the soul of the Third International, which now directs its intrigues from the Kremlin only because it found it impossible to direct them from Berlin as Moscow had wished and hoped immediately after the Great War. The other soul, the other tendency, still clings to the traditions, the mirages and ambitions of prewar Russian diplomacy which, probably unconsciously, had as one of its cardinal rules to seek a success in the Pacific when failure threatened in the
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