STALIN’S GAME

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21037, 13 February 1940, Page 5

STALIN’S GAME

DOUBLE-CROSSING HITLER COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA OVERTHROW OF NAZISM (United Press A*sn.—Eiec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON. Feb. 12 Stalin’s complicated game of dou-ble-cross with Hitler is illustrated by the latest batch of Communist propaganda to reach Holland. The Third (Communist) International has sent the Friends of the Soviet Union, who have financially supported underground Communist activities in Germany, a New Year’s greeting card reproducing what purports to be a page from an illegal Communist pamphlet distributed in Germany. This states that the Soviet stands on the side of neither Hitler nor the Allies. “We must speedily end the war through the revolutionary overthrow of Hitlerism and Fascism, to enable Thaelmann (German C ommunist leader) and other political prisoners to be liberated,” It says. “ The pamhlet is more likely to have been composed in Moscow than inside Germany,” comments Mr Carleton Greene. Amsterdam correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. “ Leading German Communists, who are completely disillusioned, point out that Stalin betrayed them as soon as he saw that Hitler was a better tool for Bolshevising Germany than Thaelmann, “ It is now clear that, contrary to earlier reports, Stalin did not ask for the liberation of a single German Communist when he signed the Russo-German pact.”