NEW EFFORT IN IRAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1941, Page 7

NEW EFFORT IN IRAN

AIMS OF BRITAIN AND RUSSIA

CHECK TO TACTICS

RUGBY, August 17.

The representations which Britain and the Soviet Union have again ...ade to the Government of Iran regarding the excessive, numbers of Germans who have arrived in that country are due to the desire to prevent further Nazi penetration. The Hitler regime has brought this method to a fine art, and it should be obvious that once he is allowed to place his foot in the door, as happened in the case of Syria, nothing but disaster is likely to follow.

Promises by Hitler are likely to be more dangerous than his threats, and playing with fire in the shape of the Nazis is inevitably followed by a conflagration.

If it is-not fully realised that the aim of Britain and Russia is merely to prevent the Nazis from making fresh trouble in the Middle East by this type of "invasion" of Iran, the Eight-Point Declaration by Mr. Churchill and President Roosevelt makes it abundantly clear in the first statement of all—"Their countries seek no aggrandisement, territorial or ether." Russia is categorically in agreement with this sentiment.

All three countries desire that, the world be free from Nazi domination, the road to which is paved by such actions as placing 3000 Germans in Iran, ready to make trouble at their leader's bidding, especially as they occupy the most vulnerable positions' in the internal administration and are, therefore, in a position to do incalculable harm.—B.O.W.