The Incompatible Allies

Mr. Hilger, who served in the German Embassy in Moscow from 1923 to 1941, has perhaps a uniquely long record of diplomatic experience with the Soviet Union. These memoirs concerning inter-war German-Soviet relations, while containing no great revelations, are quite valuable in illuminating a number of phases of that relationship, especially the Rapallo connection and the strained amicability preceding the onslaught of June 1941.