GEORGE WASHINGTON, according to a favorite bit of American folklore, was unable to tell a lie. those who now administer American foreign policy in the city bearing his name do not suffer from this disability. Any resemblance between their official rationalizations and objective reality-
or, often enough, between their words and their deeds-is purely coincidental. The quality and purpose of their efforts to excel Ananias are well exemplified in the State Department publication released on January 21, 1948: Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939-1941 (U.S. Government Printing Office,
Washington, D.C., 260 documents in 357 pages, $1.00).
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