PLEASURE IN BERLIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1939, Page 5

PLEASURE IN BERLIN

COMPLETE AGREEMENT SEEN WITH RUSSIA. COMMENT NOT NECESSARY. (Received This Day. 10.10 a.m.) LONDON. November 1. It is ( reportcd that Berlin political circles emphasise that complete Rus-sian-German agreement is revealed in M. Molotov's speech, which has created an excellent impression and explains itself so completely that comment is unnecessary. OPINION IN BRITAIN DISAPPOINTMENT FOR NAZIS. Those sections of the British Press which carry editorial comment on M Molotov’s speech regard it as a great disappointment not only to Herr von Ribbentrop’s expectations, but a blow to the Nazi policy of bluff, a Daventry broadcast states. The speech which was to mark the the turning point in the war proved to be first and last a declaration of Russion neutrality. The “Daily Telegraph” comments: “Russia looks after herself. She has given Germany nothing bar a reaffirmation of her neutrality and a hollowprofession of her zeal to bring the war to an end.”

The “Daily Herald" says that Russia has indicated that she does not intend to fight for Hitler. The “News Chronicle" remarks that in return for handing over the control of the eastern Baltic and part of Poland io Russia. Germany gets words—words which provide neither butter, nor parsnips, nor guns for the Nazis.

Other comment says that Germany is assured of Russia's moral support, but what that may be is open to doubt. Russia is concerned solely with what is to her own advantage. She wants peace because the war can give her nothing she has not already taken, and even that may be in jeopardy.