NEW SOVIET ROLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 282, 29 November 1927, Page 7

NEW SOVIET ROLE.

GUARDIAN OF PEACE.

Plot To Engineer War Scare

Fails.

GERMANY UNRESPONSIVE.

(By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright.)

(Received 10 a.m.)

LONDON, November 28.

The "Weekly Dispatch's" Berlin correspondent states that the Soviet's plot to secure Germany's co-opera-tion in alarming the world by proclaiming the danger of a war in Eastern Europe has failed on the eve of the Geneva Conference.

The Soviet has been trying to get on the European political stage in the role of Guardian of the Peace and has, therefore, Invented the 6tory of the danger of a war from which they alone are able to save Europe.

The difficulties existing in Lithuania and Poland since 1023 when the Council of Ambassadors gave Vilna to Poland were exploited by Soviet's propaganda agents for days in engineering a preliminary newspaper campaign.

This culminated in the presentation of the Soviet's Note to Warsaw, written, the correspondent states, by Tchitcherin, the cleverest intriguer in Europe, and in LitvinofFs visit to Dr. Stresemann in an attempt to bolster up this grotesque war scare.

Dr. Strcsemann's organ, the "Taglische Rundschau," denies that the Cabinet even discussed Litvinoff's visit and points out that Pilsudski would not have gone almost ostentatiously to Vilna if Poland had actually been plotting an attack on Lithuania.

Furthermore the paper denies that Germany intends to make representations to Kovno or Warsaw, thus the Bolsheviks got no encouragement from Berlin for their pose as saviours of Europe from an imaginary war.—(Sydney "Sun.")