GERMANY'S PLANS

AGREEMENT WITH POLES NO EASTERN DRIVE YET THE FUTURE OF DANZIG LONDON, Feb. 2 Well-informed observers believe that as a result of a Polish-German understanding there will be no eastern drive this spring. The Warsaw correspondent of the Times supports this view by stating that nothing like a full account of what was decided at the discussions between the Polish and German Governments has yet. been given, but it is fairly certain that an understanding was reached on three points—the question of a Great Ukraine, relations with Russia and tho status of the Free City of Danzig. The correspondent says that on these three points at least the Foreign Ministers harmonised their policies for tho immediate future. "There is to be no eastern drive this spring for the creation of an independent Ukraine," the correspondent adds. "Agreement on this point is not difficult to reach, for a glance at the map and consideration of conditions in the Soviet Ukraine —now almost terra incognita,, without even consulates by which a foreign State might keep in touch with local events and conditions —show plainly that a venture in this direction could not be achieved without careful preparation for several years unless Germany had the full support of Pola,nd or Rumania, or both. "The' second point also is not difficult, for if there were no Ukrainian question in the spring there could scarcely be any active operations against the Soviet Union.

"Notwithstanding appearances and the clashing of wills in Danzig itself, relations between Warsaw and Berlin in respect of the Free City are better to-day than they had been for a long time before Colonel Beck's meeting with Herr Hitler. Poland has agreed to make a virtue of necessity by not obstructing the Nazification of Danzig, which she recognises as pre-eminently a German town, but Polish rights and privileges in Danzig, particularly in tho port, are to remain intact."