FOREIGN POLICY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20075, 23 October 1939, Page 8

FOREIGN POLICY

HOSTILE TO ALLIES EARLY PEACE FEARED LEADING VOICE WANTED I INDIA AND CHINA

(Eire. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) , (Reed. Oct. 23, noon.) NEW YORK. Oct. 22. i A dispatch from the Moscow corre- I. spondent of the New York Times j. states that the key to the Russian j foreign policy is unchanged. "It is distrust of capitalist Governments, especially Britain and France,” states the correspondent. “Only the acceptance of this would enable an understanding of the Soviet aims which arc centred on pursuing j the opportunist present policy with j the object of securing Russia against an imagined general onslaught by the •Western Powers. “On the one hand Russia is establishing outposts to defend her frontiers. On the other she is seeking to weaken imperialism within by pacific propaganda which is pursued in Germany and equally in Britain and France.

Fears of Exclusion "Russia fearing a conference from which she may be excluded is playing a role directed at obtaining a leading voice in a conference at which she would seek to force Britain to relinquish India, Japan to relinquish China, and Germany to relinquish Poland and Czechoslovakia. This policy represents a reinsurance against the possibility of turning a premature peace against Russia, whose primary interest is the continuation of the war. “The extent to which her aims may

stretch cannot be predicted. Sooner or later she certainly will demand Ruthcnian and the Ukrainians from Hungary, giving a common frontier to Czechoslovakia, whose eventual liberation Russia expects. “The Soviet fearst French and British rapprochement with Japan, which undoubtedly would follow hostile Russian activity on ( India’s frontiers. Sign of a military dictatorship, or a Conservative Government in Germany with whom France and Britain might sign peace, would precipitate Russian action against Germany. Meanwhile, save for the slight possibility of a conflictovcr Finland, Russia is likely to concentrate on consolidating her new outposts.”