1950-09-15 — Page 9

They advanced too far

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STALIN IS PLAYING HIS CARDS AGAIN

The late Adolf Hitler did not bite the carpot on

August 21, 1939.

Instead, he was hysterical with joy. He hammered on the wall with his fists, uttered inarticulate cries, and finally shouted in exultation: "1 have the world in my pocket."

compilct been "scoled in

According to all logic he eer- able to claim that his lainly had. For it was on that with Hitler had day that Stalin agreed to help blood." him dish the democracica--anci what more could * German Fuhrer expect?

He had got Poland just where he wanted it. He had secured his rear for an attack on the West. He had behind him the illimitable resources of Russia to enable him to beat the British blockade.

Finally he hod

enlisted

the help of the world-wide Commu- nist propaganda machine which would call the hard-pressed de-

war "Imperialist mocracies mongera"--and get all its stooges to do the same,

New details

The broad facts of this story, and its outcome, are well known. Now some of the detalls, obtained from, captured German and Italian documents, have been supplied in a book which is published today. It is by an Italian journalist, A. Rossi (himself a former Com- munist), and is called "The Russo- German Aillance,

1039-1041" (Chapman and Hall, 12s. Od.).

The Communist legend is that, after Hitler had taken hulf Poland the Russians took the other half to protect themselves from

That German attack.

is a lie, Poland was carved up in secret protocol attached to the Russo- German Pact of August 23, 1839- and It was Stalin who made all the approaches.

Moreover, he determined to make Hitler do the dirty work while he sat back and grabbed and the loot. On September September- the Germans asked the Russians when they were going to march into Poland as they had agreed.

But the Russians did not move. Molotov said that "a political Justification had to be found." He did not want Russia to be branded as the aggressor she really was.

On the other hand, if she left it too Into the might be swindled out of her share of the spoils. So Stalin timed the Russian entry into Poland so that he could en- circle and destroy a Polish army of 300,000 men without much damage to himself while being

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There are several lessons to be learned from this tale. One is for Stalin, who, like Hitler, might be in danger of believing that man- kind is in the hollow of his hand.

He should not underestimate the free peoples.

It is a sickening story of ruth- less cunning such as is always fold when two gangsters get to- gether. We have Molotov (The Hammer") dispatching lick-splitle meanges to Hitler on his vic-It took them nearly six years to torles. When France fell he sent "the warmest congratulations of the Soviet Government on the splendid success of the German Armed Forces."

And well he might-for it was who helped to defeat Statin France. His propaganda did as much to undermine the morale of did the the French troops og biltzkrieg.

Peace bid

After the Polish collapse Hiller wanted peace and Stalin swit- ched on all the resources of the Communist International to de- mand it. That campaign was as noisy, and as phoney, as the pre-

sent one. 1

All the hired hacks everywhere began to stab their own countries in the back at Stolin's command, just as they are doing now.

They kept on with their parrot erles until Hero Hitler, became Crook Hitler on June 22, 1941, when he dld down The Great Stalin.

And the things the Red Czar had done for That Man! Not only had he given him morul support but immense quantities of war materials and food, some of which he hud bought in third countries to pass to Germany.

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Another is for the democracies.

prove that Hitler did not have the world in his pocket. Had thay read the signs aright, and in time, he would not have suffered that illusion, and there would probably have been no war at all

One other point. It is incon- ceivable that the Poles, who have no love for the Russians, anyway, should not hate them even more for what they did to them in 1939. When Stalin sits thinking of his satellites he must cast many un uneasy glance over his shoulder.

In all diplomatic history there are few more cynical bargains than

concluded between that Hitler and Stalin. The final moral of the episodo an old but o true one: When thieves fall out honest nien come into their own.

Churchill appeals for export ban

London, September 13. Mr. Winston Churchill, Com- servative Opposition leader, to- night tabled a motion in the ban House of Commons urging on the export from Britain of "that strategic raw materials would add to the war potential of possible aggreSSOTE",

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Backed by As we have seen, he had oven helped to destroy the Polish and leaders, the motion read, "That this House urges the Government French armies, which would have been of great help to him in his to suspend the export of heavy hour of need, and might

machine tools and strategle row have stopped the German attack materials that would add to the on Russia altogether. No wonder war potential of possible ag- Mr. Churchill has called Stalingressors, which we or our Allies "the most completely outwitted require for our defence." bungler of the second world war."

The squalld story told in this book proceeds to its predestined end. Stalin's greed for territory

South in Eastern, and

Eastern Europa over-reached itself.

Once again we see the clash of German Imperialism with Russian Imperialism. The first han

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BRITISH VIEWS ON

U.S. FAR EAST POLICY

London, September 13.

President Truman's prestige has risen sharply in U.S. exports

Britain and General MacArthur's has fallon as a result of the Formosa aquabble. The President's quick action in rebuking his Far Eastern commander for saying Formosa must be in the first line of U.S. Pacific defence has won applause from all shades of public opinion.

Bearding the (GBS) lion

Luton, September 13. George Barnard Shaw's famous white beard caused doctors, more trouble than his broken thigh when he was operated on on Monday, a source close to the case sald today.

The source wald the an. assthetist azuld not got the mark over Mr. Shaw'a board,

He added: "The doctore asked whether they could cut off part of the beard and tha old man raleed such a rumpus they had to think of some- thing elce What they final- ly thought of, after delaying the operation several minutes, was to plaster the beard to hla face. That worked fine, but Tuesday morning, when they took off the plaster, he complained it hurt more than hla thigh."

Shaw romarked -that. ho his beard never thought

"doctor's would provide a dilemma"-which is also the title of one of his famous works. He grew the beard 74 years ago to cover scars loft by smallpox.

His doctor, one of whom said Shaw was an "atrong as an ox," were frankly amazed The at his rapló recovery, 94-year-old playwright stood on his injured left leg for a fow

Brands" and remained

In cheerful spirits throughout the day, a hospital announce- ment said.-United Press.

Britain's shipbuilding record

Montreal, September 13. Nearly 50 per cent of the world's skipping tonnage now under con- struction is being built in the United Kingdom, Sir Ronald Gar- rett, chairman of Lloyd's Register of Shipping, told Interviewers here.

Sir Ronald said this put Britain for ahead of any other nation in

is shipbuilding, although little known about construction behind the Iron Curtain.

"Until a couple of months ago," he said, "we had surveyors in Poland. But then we were toid politely but firmly they did not want us there any longer, so we had to leave."-Associated Press.

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TIBET QUAKE

Calcutta, September 13. The North Assam-Tibet fron- tier ares, shaken by earth tre- mors daily for nearly a month, was rocked today by a very severe quake, reports reaching Calcutta said.

to Russia

Washington, September 13. The Secretary of Commerce, Charles Sawyer, reported today that shipments to Russia nro 90 per cent below 1040, but warn- ed of further overall export controls nceded to win the

Leading magazines and newspapers of every political | Korean wak complexion have a shown, a rare unanimity in portraying Truman as

vigorous, incisive statesman.

Their pen portraits of the pipe smoking General, have been far less flattering. Some of them have used epithets to describe his ven- ture into the field of foreign' policy. The Labour "Daily Iicrold' has coined a word to express its distaste: "MacArthurism." The staid London "Times"

went so

far as to say: "The General has fed a great deal of propaganda into the mouths of Communist spokesmen....

The Socialist magazine "Tri- bune" used less temperate wards. "The whole of his statement," it wrote, "reeks of an out-of-date imperialism which would have shamed the worst of pre-war blimps."

Colonel Blimp la a prepos terously imperfallstic Britisher portrayed by the noted British cartoonist, Low.

Gonoral consternation

All in all, General MacArthur's vlaws on Formosa could not have succeeded in raising more con- sternation here -he had tried.

The whole China issue-and that necessarily includes For- mosa-is os sensitive as a bunion in British policy.

For one thing, Britain decided months ago that it would recog- nise the Chinese Communists as rulers of all China,

A number of considerations prompted this One was that the Reds had, in fact, conquered the entire mainland. It would have been blindness, the gov ernment believed, to fall to re- cognise this fact.

A further goad was the extent and richness of Brilish invest ments in China, coupled with the value of her trade there,

Thus committed to recognise, as she has done, the Pelping re- gime, it is not surprising that Britons in general who agree with this polley take fright in American actions which might jeopardise it.

The split between Britain and the US, over China is wide enough. these observers

say, without tossing in Formosa to aggravate the situation,

any

Furthermore, they add, Impileation that the Pacific, must became for purposes of defence -án American lake is unfor. tunate.

Fears in Asia

This view which, they say, General MacArthur's suppressed statement implied, would do no thing to allay the fears of India, Indonesia and the other Asiatic nations which have hesitantly taken the United Nations side in the struggle in Korea,

General's But thought the statement was ill-timed, it did, like an it wind, blow some good. observed a number of editorlailats.

It compelled President Truman, ld the influential "Manchester Guardian," to take "one of those surprisingly decisive steps for which this President may become proverbial in American history.

that British The sum total opinion believes the President has acted wisely, that though MacAr- thur is an able General, he is beyond his depth as a policy

maker.

Some editorial writers have The town of Dibrugars in North baldly come out for the General's Assam reported A great earth-scalp. But, in the main, most have quake at 1845 Indian standard been content to feel that he has time. The quake lasted 90 seconds. unequivocally been put in his

place."

2."—Associated Press.

The report said the town church, already cracked by the long series of tremors, collapsed along with other brick buildings. Details of casualties and damage were still lacking.

The report from Dibrugars sala the deep rumblings preceded shock-United Press.

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In a quarterly report to Presi- dent Truman and Congress on the 1949 export control net, ho is now sald the Department renewing the export "prohibitive" lat in the light of recent world events.

He said, "The Department wili ure its export control authority to limit exports as need arises to an extent necessary, to project the domestic economy against supply shortages, which may re- accelerated military cult from procurement."

He added this would mean a trend reversal in the two-year toward fewer export controis.

Although the. Secretary made no mention of the requests that the US. and Western European Alles cut off all war gods to Russia, he said that exports to Iron Curtain Europe declined to $23,000,000 In the first quarter of 1950. This compared the quar- terly averages of $41,000,000 in 1940 and $108,000,000 in 1947- United Press.

BATTLE OF THE BARGES AGAIN.

Berlin, September 13.. Soviet officials in East Ger- many today reopened the two- year-old battle of the barges" between the East and West occupying powers.

Russian controllers on the Elbe at Wittenberge, inside the Soviet Zone, today hulted 20 barges 1rom Berlin bound for Hamburg with scrap metal.

Scrap metal is becoming in- creasingly valuable to the econo- mies of both East

and West Europe due to + threatened were world shortage. Barges being held at Wittenberge pend- crew llats ing scrutiny of their

Berlin by Russian controllers, a spokesman for the British Mil- tary Government said,

The British authorities in Ber- lin have not registered a protest with the Soviet representatives in their quadripartite city. "If the continues halting of the barges without any well founded reason, we shall then reconsider our at- titude," a British oficial declared today.

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The last time the Russians clamped down on burgo traffe

British through Berlin the tallated by halting vessels into the Soviet sector. After two week's delay, while barges piled up to the Wast and East sectors of Berlin, both sides relaxed their restrictions.—Reuter.

GENERAL STRIKE FIZZLES OUT

Calcutta, September 12. The Socialista much-heralded one-day general strike fizzled out today.

The Socialist unions, which called the strike in support of Bombay's idio textilo workers, claim to control more than half of Calcutta's 2,000,000 industrial and white-collar workers, but it was doubtful whether even 50,000 foiled to report for duty. workers Transportation among those called to strike, but street cara railroads, buses and were functioning normally and the walk-out was felt mainly, in the industrial section.—United Press.

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