POOR BARGAIN

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20923, 30 September 1939, Page 7

POOR BARGAIN

BROKEN PROMISES HITLER AND RUSSIA { DREAMS ABANDONED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sept. 30, 1 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 29 The Star, in an editorial, says: “The pact between Russian and Germany has not altered the great question at issue. The war is being fought for freedom and every move which has taken place since it began has only served to make that fact more plain.” The Evening News is typical of much other comment in suggesting that Hitler has got rather a poor bargain: “What does Hitler get for thus abandoning his dreams of an unlimited Lebensraum at the expense of Russia and the Balkans? He gets an agreement that Russia will take quantities of German manufactured goods in return for Russian foodstuffs and raw materials —an exchange the extent of which has always been, and will continue to be, fixed by Germany’s limited wartime ability to produce goods and Russia’s even more marked inability, in the state of her present transport facilities, to deliver goods and raw materials.” The methods by which the independent state of Poland is “wiped right off the map” and her people parcelled out between two dictatorships, which assert their intention firmly to plant their supposedly rival ideologies in the territories they have invaded and seized, are particularly noted by newspaper commentators here as finally exposing the hollowness of the once claimant Nazi protests against the so-called Versailles dictate and the erstwhile protestations of the Nazi spokesman in favour of “self-determination of the peoples.” New Russian Star The Belgrade correspondent of the New York Times, states that the G-ov-ernment has accepted the appointment of the new Soviet Minister, the 35-year old engineer, M. Lazrentiev, succeeding M. Raskolnikov. It is hinted in Russian circles that M. Lazrentiev’s mission extends to other Balkan lands. The semi-official newspaper Slowo says that the Russian star is no longer red, but symbol of Panslavia.