STALIN'S PLANS
THE RUSSIAN POLICY '"Russia's policy is plain despite the 'obscurity' attributed to. it by those whose own insight is at; .fault.' It is to use the period of immunity purchased by the Nazi-So- ■ viet pact to take all precautions for - the security of Russia. "This is 'appeasement' turned inside out. Already Stalin has obtained strong points to guard the Gulf", of Finland and a more defensivefrontier across Poland. He has seerv an equal threat through waterways into Russia—the Black. Sea. . "Already he acted to prevent an incursion into this area; by his.;, persistent effort to retain the friendship of Turkey; by his strong warnings to the most likely aggressor - against the" Balkans, Italy; ,by his resumption of diplomatic relations.: with the most likely victim, Yugoslavia. "Now, with Rumania . slipping; more obviously beneath Nazi influ-• ence; with Italy's caiaacity for eastern adventure enhanced even further by events in Syria, he strikes? for' Bessarabia and covers Rumania's.-. ■Black Sea ports,"
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 225, 14 October 1940, Page 8
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160STALIN'S PLANS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 225, 14 October 1940, Page 8
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