RUSSIA IN EUROPE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 9

RUSSIA IN EUROPE

A BRITISH REMINDER VIOLENT NAZI REACTION LONDON, Oct. 21. Intense interest in and speculation about British foreign policy has been aroused in the most important quarters by a striking editorial lefcionce in The Times yesterday to Russia s absence from the Munich conference. “She was not a party to the dispute, which concerned nationality and not political doctrine,” says The Times. ... “A? a mediator she could have exerted no influence because Of the bitter mutual distrust between the Soviet and the National-Socialist Governments. To alldy that distrust nriUst be the ultimate Objective for all who plan a better Europe. To ignore its baleful portent in the anxious days of last month might have destroyed even the imperfect Europe we know.” This implied acknowledgement of

Russia’s power for peace from a newspaper that wholeheartedly supports Mr. Chamberlain, is angering Germany whichj like the British public, does not know what it- might toreshadow. ' - “Friends of Bolsheviks” The Berlin newspapers are rebutting the Suggestion and denouncing The Times. Simultaneously these journals are publishing slashing_ propaganda against the Empire, which they declare, was created “by war, by subjection and by rivers of blood.” Field-Marshal Goering’s National Zeitung, positively hissing the English as "friends of the Bolsheviks,” describes the reference by Tne Times i - an attempt to smuggle Russia into European affairs. "If the attempt by The Times i supported by authoritative or ever serious British political circles, the. a large part of the gain for European peace achieved at Munich wornbe. lost.” it says.

The Berlin correspondent of _T’ Times . Observes that 'Great Brita: is being made an object of hosti propaganda throughout Germany, c’ pite the joint declaration of frf ship by Mr. Chamberlain and .... Hitler at Munich,