RUSSIAN ATTITUDE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 10, 13 January 1941, Page 6

RUSSIAN ATTITUDE

PEACEFUL POLICY TO GERMANY

-MAIN PILLARS OF PEACE" [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrightl Received Jan. 12, 7.5 p.m. MOSCOW, Jan. 11. The Pravda says: "Despite enemies who try to drive a wedge between us, Soviet Russia intends to pursue a peaceful policy towards Germany and towards any country exercising a sane attitude towards the Soviet.” The Izvestia comments: “Leading politicians in Britain and America think that while the United States is permitted to sell everything to Britain, including warships, and still remain neutral, Soviet Russia is infringing the neutrality laws merely by selling grain to Germany. This is juggling with neutrality and the international law, and Russia intends to ignore such an attitude. The fact is that stabilised economic relations between the world’s two greatest countries constitute them the main pillars of peace in the world.”

NEW RUSSO-GERMAN PACT SETTLEMENT OF PROBLEMS

Received Jan. 11. 7.30 p.m. BERLIN. Jan. 10. A new Russo-German pact of friendship. covering questions which have arisen in the past year, was signed to-day. It renews the previous pact and settles the Baltic States and other resettlement problems. The pact also provides for the expansion of Russo German trade.

GERMANS DISAPPOINTED IMPRESSION IN LONDON Received Jan. 12, a p.m. LONDON, Jan. 11. The Sunday Times says there is a widespread impression in London that the Russia-Germany pact was a disappointment to Germans. Russia apparently does not wish to quarrel with Germany over non-essentials, being content to continue to provide Germany with oil, cotton, timber, manganese ore and other raw materials. Russian exports of cotton to Germany last year were four times greater than in 1939.

_ HUGE GRAIN DEAL PURCHASE BY GERMANY Received Jan. 12. 9.30 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 11. The German news agency declared that Russia and Germany had completed the greatest grain deal in history, many billions of marks being involved. The agency added that Germany was receiving petroleum ores and great quantities of cotton from Russia.