NAZIS & VASSALS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1941, Page 6

NAZIS & VASSALS

RENEWAL OF PACT AGAINST RUSSIA SOME STATES INVITED AS ONLOOKERS. FINLAND AMONGST NUMBER. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10-50 a.m.) LONDON, November 24. Representatives of the signatories to the Anti-Comintern Pact, who are meeting in Berlin, will renew the pact tomorrow for a further five years, says the. British United Press Berlin correspondent. Only the six original adherents —Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain, Hungary and Manchukuo will sign the renewal, although Hitler has invited representatives of European countries under German domination to attend the ceremony. The vassal countries represented will be Finland, Denmark, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia and Rumania. Hitler has not invited Sweden, Switzerland or Vichy to send representatives. The German propaganda machine is doing its utmost to boost the ceremony as a big German diplomatic victory. Lavish social preparations are being made. The German-controlled radios at first stated that Finland and. Rumania were signing the pact, but this was later denied.

TOKIO HAIR-SPLITTING SOVIET AND THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL. (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) TOKIO, November 24. The “Nichi Nichi Shimbun” said Japan’s participation in the Anti-Comin-tern Conference would not violate the Russian-Japanese Neutrality Pact, since the Anti-Comintern agreement was aimed at the Third International and not at the Soviet Union.