SOVIET AND GERMANY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20379, 16 October 1940, Page 5

SOVIET AND GERMANY

TALKS EXPECTED RUSSIA ALOOF IN BALKANS NEW YORK, Oct. 12. Conversations between Russia and Germany are expected in the immediate future for a half-yearly review of economic relations between the two countries, says the Berlin correspondent of the New York Times. "It, will not be surprising if von Ribbentrop goes to Moscow shortly, he adds. “It is no secret that Germany would like to see improved relations with the Soviet, and also a nonaggression pact between Moscow and Tokio.” In a leading article the New York Times says! "The fact that Russia is so obligingly unprotesting, in spite of recent Balkan moves, indicates that Stalin and Molotov are now lying in a pit of helplessness they have dug themselves. “Having signed the death pact with Hitler last year they must now abide by its consequences, one of which was the Italo-German-Japan pact, which appears to have handcuffed them. “Another will probably come in the form of a Russo-Japan pact, made at Hitler’s command. Still another would be the spectacle of Hitler’s troops advancing- unhindered through the age-old Russian ‘living-space’ in the Near East”