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at the opening of this chapter, was bound to react disastrously
on the existing readiness to help. This revulsion of opinion was
plainly expressed in a number of European and American
papers and periodicals. The utterances of M. Harriot are to
this day a serious embarrassment to all those who5 moved by
humanitarian considerations3 are fighting to spread the truth
and bring help to those now starving in the Soviet Union.