INTERNATIONAL: That They May Know

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Something or someone has persuaded the Russian Government to loosen up, let the Russian people know more about their allies' part in the war. Last week:

> Russians in Moscow packed six movie houses to see Desert Victory, Britain's great record of triumph in North Africa (TIME, April 12). Prime Minister Winston Churchill had sent the picture personally to Premier Joseph Stalin. It was scheduled for showings throughout the U.S.S.R., and to Red Army troops at the front.

> Also shown in Moscow was Iran, a Soviet film picturing the busy Anglo-American supply line through Persia to Russia. Russian audiences saw the delivery of American planes to Red pilots; American technicians assembling other war goods, shipping them in U.S. trucks over mountain highways built or improved by British engineers.

Admiral William Harrison Standley, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, no longer had cause to complain that the facts of Allied aid were being withheld from the Russians (TIME, March 15). The exchange of information and good will was two-way. In London, cinema audiences hailed a Russian film, Stalingrad, as the equal of Desert Victory, In the U.S., audiences and critics applauded MARCH OF TIME'S One Day of War, which had been derived from a longer Russian film, and the epic Siege of Leningrad.