POST-WAR FRONTIERS

Southland Times, Issue 24986, 24 February 1943, Page 5

POST-WAR FRONTIERS

Guarantee From Russia

(Rec. 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, Feb 23 The London correspondent of The New York Times reports that from reliable Allied sources it is learned that the Soviet has formally guaranteed the Czechoslovak Government in London that it would support -the reconstitution of Czechoslovakia’s pre-Munich frontiers. This is taken to mean that the Soviet is serving notice that it is not interested in acquiring Ruthenia and also gives a clue to Moscow’s post-war intentions. There has been a deal of unhealthy speculation about the possibility of M. Stalin, backed up by a victorious Red Army, seeking to acquire vast new territories. The Czechoslovakian commitment is concrete evidence supporting the diplomats who believe that the Soviet, while insisting on the establishment of strategically safe borders after the war, is not interested in further Central European expansion. It appears emphatically to contradict the alarmist fears which Axis propa- , ganda has incited that the Soviet would like to intrude beyond the Carpathians and control the central Danubian valley.