RETALIATION TALK IN NAZI QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 113, 16 May 1939, Page 9

RETALIATION TALK IN NAZI QUARTERS.

PEACE FRONT PACTS.

Envoys May Leave Britain, Poland And Turkey.

NEW AXIS AGREEMENT.

United Press Association.—Copyright.

(Received 1.30 p.m.)

LONDON, May 15.

Well-informed Nazi sources are of the opinion that the Government is planning retaliation for the BritishTurkish pact. There is a hint they may withdraw diplomats from Poland, Turkey, and even tfroni Britain, says the British United Press correspondent.

The Moscow newspaper "Izvestia" declares that the agreement between Britain and Turkey is a step towards the creation of an effective peace front to face further extension of aggression, and adds that the vital interests of Turkey make such a policy imperative.

Turkey has long been the objective of appetites of aggressive countries owing to her strategical importance as sovereign of the Black Sea and the Straits.

The first comment on the pact between Britain and Turkey, which appears in the semi-official" journal "Politika," points out that Turkey has abandoned neutrality, which has always been the policy of her Balkan Entente allies, and she has finally lined up with the democracies, says a Belgrade message.

Official circles refer to the pact as a great triumph for British policy, and think it will be a decisive influence in the foreign policy of the Balkan States.

The British United Press Berlin correspondent says that it is reliably stated that Count Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister, will arrive on Sunday. He is expected to stay several days, during which there will be the ceremonial of signing the Germano-Italian military agreement. Herr Hitler is expected to make an important speech stressing the combined military weight of Italv and Germany.