FREEDOM ISSUE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20056, 30 September 1939, Page 6

FREEDOM ISSUE

PROBLEM REMAINS

PEACE-TALK COMMENT

RUSSO-GERMAN PACT

PROTESTATIONS RECALLED

‘ ‘SELF-DETERMINATION’ ’

(British Official Wireless.)

Reed. 1.45 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. 29 The Star in an editorial says: “The pact between Russia and Germany has’ not altered the great question at issue. The war is being fought for freedom and every move which has taken place since it began has only served to -make that fact more plain.”

The Evening News is typical of much other comment in suggesting that Herr Hitler got a rather poor bargain. “What does Herr Hitler get for thus abandoning his dreams of an unlimited lebehsraum at the expense of Russia and the Balkans?” asks the Evening'" News.' “He gets an agreement that Russia will take quantities of German-manufactured goods in return for Russian foodstuffs and raw materials —an exchange the extent of which always has been and will continue to be fixed by Germany’s limited wartime ability to produce goods and Russia’s even more marked inability, in the state oi' her present transport facilities, to deliver goods and raw materials.”

The methods by which the Independent State of Poland is “wiped right off the map" and her people parcelled out between two dictatorships which assert their intention firmly to plant their supposedly-rival ideologies in the territories' they have invaded and seized are particularly noted by newspaper commentators as finally exposing the hollowness of the once-clamant Nazi protests against Ihe .so-called Versailles dictate and the erstwhile protestations of Nazi spokesmen in favour of “self-determination of peoples.”

RUSSIAN REPRISAL

P.RITATX HRFUSED Oil,

(Reed. Scot. 30, 2 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, Sept. 29,

The Berlin correspondent of the Telegraaf says that Russia has stopped the delivery of oil to Britain as a reprisal against Britain’s cessation of Russian deliveries. Tankers preparing to go to Alexandria have been forbidden to sail. •