“GUARDIAN OF PEACE”

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 306, 29 November 1927, Page 8

“GUARDIAN OF PEACE”

SOVIET’S RULE A FAILURE

GROTESQUE WAR SCENE

POLAND AND LITHUANIA EXPLOITED.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

Received November 29, 1.5 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 28. The Dispatch’s Berlin correspondent states: “The Soviet’s plot to secure Germany’s co-operation in alarming the world by proclaiming a danger of war in eastern Europe has failed on the eve of Geneva. “Tho Soviet has been .trying to get on the European political stage in the role of guardian of the peace, and therefore invented the story of a danger of war from which they alone were able to save Europe. The difficulties existing in Lithuania and Poland since 1923, when the Council of the Ambassadors give Vilna to Poland, were exploited. The Soviet’s propaganda agents spent days engineering a preliminary newspaper campaign, which culminated in the presentation of the Soviet’s Note to Warsaw, which was wnitton by M. Cliicherin, the cleverest intriguer in Europe, and M. Litvirioff’s visit to Dr. Stresemann in an attempt to bolster the grotesque war care. “Dr, Stresemann’s organ, the Taglische Rundsc, denies that Cabinet even discussed M. Litvinoff’s visit and points out that Marshal Pilsiidski would not have gone almost ostentatiously to Vilna if Poland were actually plotting ian attack on Lithuania. Furthermore, it denies that Germany intends to make representations to Kovno or Warsaw. Thus the Bolsheviks got no encouragement from Berlin to pose as the saviours of Europe from- an imaginary war and then circulate the hat among a grateful audience for badly-needed money.” —Sydney Sun cable.