RUSSIA'S "TREACHERY"

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 83, 4 October 1941, Page 10

RUSSIA'S "TREACHERY"

SECRET PLANS

HITLER SPEAKS OF DEMANDS

BY M. MOLOTOV

(Kec. 2.20 p.m.)

LONDON, Oct. 3,

In the course of his speech in Berlin, Hitler said:—

"It was a personal humiliation when in 1939 I sent a Minister to Moscow. I sincerely kept my obligations to Russia, but Russia did not keep her promises. Her treachery was first evident in the attack against Finland and the Baltic States.

"I learned that Russia had reached the hour to advance. against us last autumn. I therefore invited M. Molotov to Berlin. He gave me four conditions. In the first place, he said that. Finland must be liquidated. I refused. he asked if the German guarantee protected Rumania against Russia. I stood by my word to Rumania. * Thirdly, M. Molotov demanded the right to garrisons in Bulgaria. I said that that depended on Bulgaria's wishes. . Fourthly, he demanded bases in the Dardanelles. I rejected the demand. Further talks were useless.

"Not for a single second has the initiative on the Eastern Front been taken from our hands. We have not been disappointed in . anything. We have only been surprised by one thing: we had no idea of the enemy's gigantic preparations. Russia had concentrated power, which was unknown to anybody, and there are still many who do not believe it."