“If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union.”
Sadao Araki (1877–1966) Japanese general
Quoted in "Sugamo Diary" - Page 30 - by Yoshio Kodama - 1960
“But on that sunlit Sunday, Alexander knew nothing, thought nothing, imagined nothing. He forgot Dimitri and war and the Soviet Union and escape plans, and even America, and crossed the street for Tatiana Metanova.”
— Paullina Simons, book Tatiana and Alexander
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