NAZI MENACE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20046, 19 September 1939, Page 5

NAZI MENACE

DISTRUST IN MOSCOW POSSIBLE COMPLICATIONS MARCH TO BORDER AMERICAN CONJECTURE (Reed. Sept. 19, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 18. The Moscow correspondent of the New York Times says it is not necessary for Russia to swell her army to 6,500,000 with reservists merely to eeize the Polish Ukraine and the belief that Germany was uncomfortably surprised by the Russian mobilisation does not square with the theory that everything was arranged during the recent visit to Moscow by the German Foreign Minister. Herr Von Ribbentrop. The correspondent suggests that Russia felt free to move only after the conclusion of the armistice with Japan in the Manchukuo border dispute, According to the correspondent the move into Poland was inspired by complete distrust of Germany and fear of complications should the Nazis reach the Soviet border. It was felt that the sooner the Polish tragedy was ended the sooner the Nazis would be transferred to the west and cease to menace the Soviet, The Invasion of Poland has not succeeded in shaking the feeling that two cardinal factors are unchanged, the desire to avoid participation in a major conflict and fear and distrust of Germany.

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