RUSSIAN ATTITUDE

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 29 March 1935, Page 7

RUSSIAN ATTITUDE

Ready to Cooperate in Strengthening Peace NO AGREEMENT AT BERLIN HITLER UNRESPONSIVE [United Press Assoclatlon~By Electric Telegraph Copyright). Received 10.30 a.m. to-day. MOSCOW, March 28. Karl Kadek, in an article in the “Izvestia,” says Germany must know that if she attacks any Eastern European country 4slie wilt-find against her,, not only France, but also England. The Soviet "is ready without reserve to co-operate with England-in this v work of strengthening peace. The Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent’s account of the talks, holds the field! as the most complete disclosure.. Inquiries in .official, quarters .at Paris endorse the correspondent’s information. This is significant in view of -the fact that Sir-John .Simon- gave a brief account to the French Amfvas' sador before his departure'from Berlin. The result generally accepted at (Paris is that precautionary measures of defence will be restored on all sides. French wireless stations broadcast the “Daily Telegraph’s” account. “Sir John Simon yielded no points by the silence of consent, eays the correspondent. There were m fact nc points vc real harmony between the British and German outlook. Sir John appears to have found Herr'Hitler entirely unresponsive bo the British ain> of collective security. Berlin paiiers have no news of the drift of the conversations beyond censored reports from London; consequently comment is confined to generalities.” The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent says official circles emphasise that there was no bargaining .between Sir John Simon and Herr Hitler Herr Hitler invariably replied that his future action would he guided by the extent to which other nations could be persuaded to fall into Lndendorff in his periodical called “At the Holy Well of German Power,” says: “On March 16 we won hack our military sovereignty by our own strength, not by means of a bargain with the originators of the Versailles Treaty or that helpless creation, the League of Nations ”• “The Times’ ” political correspondent says Ministerial circles consider Sir John Simon’s and Mr Eden’s visit ex tremely useful, affording a. frank and clear statement of German ideas. There is little common ground between the British and the German views, except that Herr Hitler favours limitation of armaments and fully agrees wi the proposal for an air convention. “The Times’ ” special representative accompanying Mr Anthony Eden to Moscow says their tram crossed the Russian frontier under an archway inscribed “Under world Communism frontiers will disappear.” He adds that there is intense anxiety in Moscow to learn the precise lines or the British official policy.