EARLY SIGNING OF PACT EXPECTED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1939, Page 7

EARLY SIGNING OF PACT EXPECTED

Expressions of Elation in Germany ARMY READY TO MARCH AT SHORT NOTICE TALK OF BRITAIN BEING PUZZLED AND AFRAID (By T.-h,graph. IT>.-.. Association.—Copyright.) IJ )ND(»N. Ailgilsl 23. Tin' Gernuui b'oi’oii.'ii A! 111! >. t«• c. Ilerr voli It iblienl I‘Op. II)’-i-iveil in Moscow al 1 p.m. local film 1 . ll<‘ will see the Foreign ('mnrnissar, M. M 010 l o\. ai 3 p.m. Germany’s elation grows as llie world, al’ler a troubled night, turns its eyes tow,aril Moscow, It is confidently expected that the non-aggression pari will be signed within a matter of hours, ai'ter which Germany’s next and decisive move might follow al any miiinlc. There is now no doubt that the German army is ready to ma rch a! a moment’s not ice. The Goman Press signi lira>d iy does not mention the British Cabinet's slatemeiH. Dl’licia Is, however, appear surprised at the statemenl’s firmness, hid they profess to continue to believe that neither Britain nor Franco would light. The same quarters assert categorically that the “Versailles Poland’’ is dead. They predict a fourth partition, and it is openly threatened that Germany will march to Warsaw and beyond unless a settlement on the Czechoslovakian lines is forthcoming. 'Even if the worst comes to the worst the average German is convinced that it will he all over in four or five days. This viewpoint coincides with tin' headlines of the newspaper. “Boersen Zeilnng”: “London Puzzled and Afraid— Recognition of Defeat.’’ The Press has made Germans believe that Russia will now stand shoulder to shoulder with Germany ;ind actually join in grabbing Polish territory. Alongside stories of Poland’s “bestial treatment of Germans’’ the newspapers unanimously declare that Germany has resumed Bismarck’s foreign policy of friendship with Russia which Kaiser Wilhelm imprudently destroyed. General Goering' 1 * “National Zeitung’’ ominously declares that Herr von Ribbentrop’s discussions in Moscow deal with the division of. mutual spheres of influence, which is accepted as proof that the partition of Poland is planned.