THE INFLUENCE OF RUSSIA

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22662, 17 March 1939, Page 11

THE INFLUENCE OF RUSSIA

AMBASSADOR URGES COOPERATION “SOVIET POLICY BASED ON LAW AND ORDER” LONDON NEWSPAPER ATTACK ON BRITISH ATTITUDE (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received March 16, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 16. “Peace or war depends on the nature of relations between London and Moscow,” said the Soviet Ambassador (M. Maisky), speaking in London. “Britain and Russia have not always agreed on the best methods of securing peace, but there is at present no conflict of interest between them in any part of the world. The Soviet policy is not peace at any price, but is based on law and order.” The “Daily Herald” says: “Let us face the facts, and this threat, because we can meet it only by an

intensification of our own measures for security, and a determined policy of co-operation with France, Russia, and the United States against a common danger to those principles of international justice and peace to which we all adhere.” The “News-Chronicle” says: “The present climax' shows the utter futility of. Mr Chamberlain’s policy towards Germany. Every sane person desires to see international differences settled by discussion instead of by force, but it is surely plain that Mr Chamberlain’s policy of retreating before the aggressor merely encourages him to further acts of aggression.” PLIGHT OF JEWS (iKDEPEOTJEKT CAS LB SERVICE.) (Received March 17, 2 a.m.) PRAGUE, March 16. Fifty thousand Jews in Prague who went to bed in Bohemia woke to find themselves in Germany, desperately seeking avenues of escape. It is estimated that there are at least 250,000 Jews in Czechoslovakia. The plight of those in Slovakia is almost as bad as in • Bohemia, since the Hlinka Guard is fanatically anti-Semitic. It is believed that though 50,000 have been preparing to leave since the Munich agreement, only a small proportion was enabled to secure British and other funds, while the numbers have been swollen by refugees from Austria. In addition thousands of Sudeten Social Democrat Germans in Bohemia are facing a terrible fate. 3 IMPORTANT BOOKS. INTERESTING ENTERTAINING. You will find these three books “above the average” . . . Philip Gibbs’ Book “This Nettle, Danger” 9/6 is real reading; “They Wanted to Live,” Cecil Roberts, 7/6, will be welcomed . . . and Bess Streeter Aldrich’s “Song of Years” 9/6, is a book that will command widespread appreciation. For the latest in Novels, Travel Books, Autobiographies—in fact all reading. See Simpson-Williams, Ltd., 238 High street, Christchurch. —1 For Urgent Attention Coughs and colds should be attended to immediately with Baxter’s Lung Preserver. . “Baxter’s” quickly and pleasantly relieves coughs, colds, sore throats, and many bronchial ailments. “Baxter’s” has a tonic action, too All chemists and stores sell “Baxter’s ” —-3