BRITAIN & GERMANY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 7

BRITAIN & GERMANY

PLOT SEEN BY RUSSIANS

The attacks in the Soviet Press on the Munich agreement and its consequences took more and more the character of denunciations of Mr. Chamberlain's part and his personal policies, said a message to the Manchester Guardian." The original explanation offered to the Soviet public was that Mr. Chamberlain avoided war at all costs from a fear of arming the working classes. A writer in the Government organ "Izvestia" pictured Mr. Chamberlain as "the candidate for the gendarme of Europe," with missionary zeal paving the way for making Europe Fascist and for laying low the forces of. democracy

An entirely new version has been provided by a writer in the Leningrad "Krasnaya Gazeta." He has discerned a deep-laid plot not only against the Soviet Union but also against Germany and Japan. Mr. Chamberlain's attitude on Austria and Czechoslovakia is attributed to his desire of clearing the way eastward for Herr Hitler and so of making easier an attack on the Soviet Union and diverting Herr Hitler's attention from the West. Viewing the Soviet Union, Germany, and Japan as Britain's greatest enemies, Mr. Chamberlain, it is declared, is seeking to embroil all three in the ,hope that the Soviet Union will be destroyed and Germany and Japan reduced to dependence on Britain. "England," it is added, "hates the Soviet Union and dreams of destroying it. She wants to turn loose the Fascist aggressors against the Soviet Union."