CRIMINAL PLOT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 44, 21 February 1940, Page 7

CRIMINAL PLOT.

LABOUR'S CHARGE. Indictment Of SUlin And Hitler. PAMPHLET OK PIHLAirO. —— —— British OfMal Wireless. (Received 3 p.m.) RUGBY, February ». A pamphlet entitled "FinlandCriminal Conspiracy of Stalin and Hitler." is published by the Labour party to-day. Tracing the history of Russia's relation* with neighbours on the Baltic, the pamphlet recalls LitvinolTs declaration made at the time non.aggression parts were concluded with these States: "The Soviet State, to whom ideas of chauvinism, nationalism and racial or national prejudices are completely alien, desires no conquests, no expansion and no extension of her territory." xi T , he P* o^l * l contrast* this witb Molotoffs speech in October, 193», in which the whole ideological basis of the I Soviet * foreign policy wu completely jettisoned. - * 1 The pamphlet then list* the States or part* of State* which Stalin and Hitler have brought within their despotic "protect .on' by force or threat of force, regardle** of Hfe. liberty or happiness, l he number of persons acquired bv these means totals over 60.000.000. Speaking of the bargain made 'between the»e dictators, the pamphlet «aya. "it was not through any lapse of memory that Hitler omitted to mention Finland in his speech of October «. The act of omission was a public whisper in the ear of Stalin that Finland was no longer on the map at the Reich Chancellery. "Thk was a diplomatic manner of erpressing the fact that the two gangster* had agreed to work on different pitches, or, more precisely, that the occupation of the Baltic States and Finland was part of the price which Stalin had exacted from Hitler for his Wtraval of the peace of the world through the conclusion of the Soriet-Gennaa pacts."