WAR GUILT ON NAZIS

Evening Star, Issue 23370, 13 September 1939, Page 5

WAR GUILT ON NAZIS

GOUiMENT IN RUSSIAN PRESS LONDON. September 12. Moscow says that after a week of careful avoidance of naming Germany as the aggressor, ' Izvestia ' indirectly places the war guilt on Germany in the first review of the war. Despite the caution exercised by the Press, which has reported the war news impartially, the Soviet since the begin-, ning has been convinced that Germany was the aggressor. SOVIET CONCERN STILL SUSPICIOUS OF HITLER NEW YORK, September.il. The Moscow correspondent of the New York 'Times' says: "There are many reasons why the Russian people are worried over the Germa,n advance. Originally, they believed that the pact would make it impossible for the French and the British to back Poland and that the latter would be compelled to surrender Danzig, postponing the war indefinitely. When," nevertheless, the war broke out they believed if would be a - prolonged_ struggle, 1 deter-' mined Allied attacftps in the west preventing such concentrated attacks in the east as seem now to threaten to eliminate Poland in a few weeks and bring German troops along the whole length of the Russian border. The abrupt conclusion of the pact entirely failed to convince Russians that Hitler has really abandoned £he role of