RUSSIA AND GERMANY
BARRIERS TO CO-OPERATION “AN ATTRACTIVE DREAM” (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Feb. 16. The obstacles in the way of effective Russian-German co-operation are discussed in The Times, which remarks that the organisation _of Russian resources by Prussian efficiency is “a dream which has always been attractive to the German army leaders, but is likely to remain a dream for, to the great mass of Russians, there is nothing more antipathetic than precise and soulless efficiency. It could not be actualised through a complete and prolonged domination of Russia by German organisers, and the experience of Peter the Great and succeeding rulers shows how difficult this would be. Any attempt to establish it would more likely provoke a quarrel than facilitate cooperation. The Russians know the Germans look down on them as an inferior race and only valuable for cannon fodder and other material to serve the German ends. The Times adds that no great success is likely to follow the trade pact just concluded.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24226, 19 February 1940, Page 8
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