CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 166, 16 July 1941, Page 6

CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS

AND AFTER RUSSIA?

i (Tc the Editor) I It may be that Adolf has too on his mind just now to allowht?? 'butt in in the Syrian neeotiaKLJ? I We can be certain of one iISTE* ; ever—should lie succeed ui » i Ukraine he isn't likely to sto!) ! —and it doesn't need a great i™!!? ledge of geography to pick SSL' way the Nazi armies will DrocwSi? their ultimate goal be India!!!; Iran, looting as thev go glance at Transcaucasia, for insSL 3 What used to be the Transcauarim Federation has, since 1936 (und&flE new Constitutioni been busted into the three Soviet Socialist ReniS lies of Azerbaijan, Armenia Georgia, and it is in the Azerbaijan Republic 1 m the vicinity of BaC that the Fuehrer's greatest howsnf world conquest lie. Here— if lucky enough <and we are tw enough)—Adolf will find the mS important oil iieli.s in the TJS.SJL and it's not helping the enemy u mention the fact, for the NaziHto! Command have demonstrated tothp world how little they overlook. W oaucasia spells not only oil W pyrites, barites. copal, zinc, silver copper, tin. vanadium, molybdenum' —and cotton of the highest qualitv Georgia, in Western Transcaucasia" contains the largest manganesemirS in the world—rich timber land— coal seams waiting for development— and grain. Armenia. 'a country 0 f orchards.'' means not only more cotton and tobacco but more copper and more lead. And Transcaucasia is on the direct road to India—via the Caspian Sea and Iran into Baluchistan. Wavell may be resting in India, but he's rather a restless man. The cables tell us the Quetta (Baluchistan) Command "ha? been considerably reinforced"- also that the Turkish ' newspapers are hinting at war in Iran to prevent Germany from getting the Persian oil fields. It may be so. And it may be Britain gets in first—this time. MacCLURE.