EMBROILING SOVIET AND GERMANY
PRE-WAR DIPLOMACY OF WEST LONDON, Feb. 15. Russia in the third instalment answering the United States publication of documents relating to Nazi-Soviet relations in 1939-41, said Britain’s basic aim was to get Russia and Germany to grips, says the Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press. Britain and France played a double game calciilater to direct German aggression against Russia. The statement declared that if Britain had obtained ail Anglo-German agreement she would have allowed the Germans to settle with Poland. The statement added that Russia for the purpose of self-defence had either to accede to the German proposal for a non-aggression pact or reject Germany’s proposal and thereby permit “war provocateurs from the Western Powers’ camp” to involve Russia in war with Germany when the situation was unfavourable to Russia. Whereas Russia insisted on an agreement for combating aggression, Britain and France systematically rejected it and the United States backed this policy of isolating Russia.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 107, 16 February 1948, Page 3
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