DRIVE TO EAST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 148, 26 June 1939, Page 7

DRIVE TO EAST.

BARRIERS RAISED.

Hitler's Road Blocked By Britain And France.

TURKISH COLLABORATION.

Independent Cable Service.

_~ . LONDON, June 22. rhis week's publicity for Germany 8 bid for Arabian influence when Her,- Hitler received a counsellor of King Ibn Saud, of Saudi Arabia, has aroused keen interest in hiiirupe s capitals.

•Wmany's traditional "drive to the east" policy has iost none of its force as an international question. But it is frit that Britain and France have blocked Hitler's road by enlisting- Turkey's active collaboration. *

It is learned that Egyptian and luiki-n official, at a conference at Ankara, established complete identity "f views regarding the defence of their """•'ion interests in the Eastern Mediterranean. A Turko-Egyptian pact *.OMW bar the road of from the Suez Canal to the Dardanelles.

he armed forces of Egypt, Turkey, v ,;'.'". anflF 'i rt " ,( in Near East \ lmM t( » Protect the route to tlie hast by sea or land.

In the .event of war, it is believed ««t the joint air and «ea forces would he under Brit id, command, while a STi» w/„n ral ' With llp " df l«Hrters in \*im, would command the land forces.