SOVIET VULTURE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 29 November 1927, Page 5

SOVIET VULTURE

WEARS DOVE’S FEATHERS GROTESQUE WAR SCARE. THE PLOT THAT FAILED. [By Cable — Press Assn. — Copyright.) (Received 29, 10.35 a m.) London, Nov. 28. The "Dispatch’s” Berlin correspondent states that the Soviet ploj to secure Germany’s co-operation in alarming the world by the proclamation of the danger of war m Eastern Europe lias failed On the eve of the meeting of the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva, the Soviet has been trying to get on tne European political stage in the role ot Guardian of the Peace, ana therefore invented a story ct danger of war from which they alone were able to save Europe. The difficulties existing in Lithuania and Poland since 1913. when the Council of Ambassadors gave Vilna to Poland were exploited. The Soviet’s propaganda agents spent days engineering a preliminary newspaper campaign which culminated in the presentation ot the Soviet’s Note to Warsaw, written by Chicherin, the cleverest intriguer in Europe, and Litvinoff’s visit to Dr. Stresemann m an attempt to bolster up a grotesque war scare. Dr. Stresemann’s organ “Taglische Rundschau” denies that Cabinet even discussed Litvinoff’s visit and points out that Marshal Pilsudski. Prime Minister of Poland, would not have gone almost ostentatiously to Vilna i) Poland were actually plotting to attack Lithuania. Furthermore, the Stresemann organ denies that Ger many intends to make renresentatioris to Kovno or Warsaw. Thus the Bolsheviks got no encouragement from Berlin to pose as the saviours of Europe from imaginary war and then circulate the hat among tho grateful audience for bad!- needed money.—(Sydney "Sun” Cable.)

A Berlin cable yesterday stated that tne Russian Government has sent a message to Warsaw impressing on the Government the importance of preserving peace. The Soviet threatens to take extreme measures if Poland attacks Lithuania. ...