PACTS WITH SOVIET

Grey River Argus, 16 June 1942, Page 5

PACTS WITH SOVIET

Japanese Estimate SECOND FRONT IMPOSSIBLE! (Rec. 11.30) LONDON, June 15. The “Japan Times-Advertiser”, according to the Tokio official radio, has asserted: “ißritain has behaved like a drowning man snatching at straws, in concluding the Russian mutual assistance pact.” It adds: “The parallel Russian-American agreement regarding a second front is rather tragic for the United States, who ought to know better than anyone else that it is impossible to form a second front in Europe. However, both the agreements are highly significant, since they imply British and American submission to the Soviet.” GOEBBEL’S COMMENT. LONDON, June 14. Dr. Goebbels, writing in the "Das Reich,” Berlin, says: “Churchill is enraged about, the military failures. He is unable to open a second front to help the Bolshevists, knowing as well as we do that an atternpted landing on anv Part of the Continent will merely become a second and worse Dunkirk. So there is nothing for him to do but to throw about dark warnings and threats. The Russians’ daily demands will be met in a less dangerous way bv Royal Air Force raids against the civilian population of Germany. It is senseless to assume that such raids decisively hit our war industry. However, we will return these bows. Terror can only be answered by. terror." PRESS COMMENT. LONDON, June 14. “Now that a decision has been taken concerning the second front, the preparation of another British Expeditionary Force must be the Government’s first purpose and main concern,” states the “Daily Express, London. “The Government should get on with the job with speed., urgency, and dynamic force. There is no time to be wasted.” . , “The Anglo-Russian treaty is a momentous development.” says tne “New York Times” in an editorial which forecasts fundamental shifts in the balance of forces that may have immense consequences for the future of Europe. The paper adds that although the United States was not included in the Anglo-Russian treaty, the close co-operation of America with Britain and Russia was not affected. On the contrary, the bilateral character of the treaty might foreshadow the system oi regional groupings which . were vaguely envisioned in Washington and London as a basis of the new peace structure. ANKARA, Jfine 13.

The British-Russian Treaty undermines Axis propaganda which had lately been hinting at the possibility of a Russian-German alliance. Turkey welcomes Russia’s adhesion to the principles of the Atlantic Charter, because it clears up the doubt as to Russia’s intentions towards Turkey. ■