"INGLORIOUS TURN"

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 129, 27 November 1940, Page 7

"INGLORIOUS TURN"

DIPLOMATIC DRIVE

SUDDEN NOTE OF CAUTION

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received November 27, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, November 26.

A statement emanating from official quarters in Berlin that Slovakia's signature to the Three Power Pact completes the series is noted with interest in London. Earlier, and obviously inspired, reports on the Italian wireless suggested that Bulgarian representatives were on the way to Berlin to sign, and ever since the meeting of King Boris and Hitler totalitarian propagandists have been suggesting that Bulgaria was on the point of accepting subservience to the Axis.

It appears, therefore, that whatever plans there were in Berlin to bring pressure upon Bulgaria to enter the heralded "new European order" have been at least postponed.

Observers in London see some reflection of the Italian military defeat' in Albania in the sudden caution in Berlin. The magnificent performance of the Greeks and the evidence of the effective aid which British forces have been able to give the victims of aggression in the Middle East have had a widespread influence. TURKEY AND EGYPT FIRM. The firm attitude of Turkey and the loyalty of Egypt to its obligations, as again reiterated by the new Prime Minister in Cairo today, are also important factors in strengthening the resolution of those States most nearly exposed to bullying from Berlin. The Nazi diplomatic offensive, which opened with fanfares, on M. Molotov's visit to Berlin, has taken as inglorious a turn as Mussolini's military adventure against the Greeks. !