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Wilhelmstrasse as Premier's  penance to Canossa' while
 
German press in headlines expressed opinion that Churchill
 
was ordered to Washington by Roosevelt. Wilhelmstrasse
 
adds that Germany is little interested in outcome of
 
Washington conference.
 
     Stefani twenty-third declares that Churchill's journey
 
to Washington means another step by England along path
 
of political submission to United States. Last time
 
the two statesmen met halfway but now Churchill has
 
gone far as White House and this has occasioned much
 
comment. There are two hypotheses: either Churchill
 
is in such urgent need of North American aid that he
 
has gone to ask for it personally so as to secure ab-
 
solute priority or else London has feeling Roosevelt
 
needs advicz on his first steps in the War, which
 
actually have not been brilliant.
 
     Noting that Litvinov is attending Washington con-
 
ferences, Stefani twenty-fourth continues "He is the
 
most cunning of the three and will easily be able to
 
do what he likes with other two and will put interests
 
of Bolshevism above everything.  Litvinov is in strong
 
position in Washington these days, in view of fact
 
that for months only Front on which plutocracies
 
fighting was, by supreme irony, The Russian Front.
 
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