OCR Text |
Show Soviet-Nazi Accord I Fears Shake Europe By H. R. KNICKERBOCKER (Copyright, 1937, by International News) LONDON, March 29 Transcending by far In potentlel Importance Impor-tance sny event of recent years in Europe is the rumor until now only a rumor, but supported by remarkable circumstantisl evidence that soviet Russia and nazi Germany may drop their differences, form an alliance and set out to divide the continent between them, I Such a development seems at the moment to be too fantastic to deserve de-serve serious 'consideration, but It Is a fact that Its possibility is being weighed with foreboding in ths secret se-cret councils of every European capital. Even though cool weighing of probabilities would maks ths odds 100 to 1 against any such thing happening, hap-pening, yet even one chance In 100 of the continent's witnessing combination com-bination of the two greatest military mili-tary machines in the world, with Germany's Incomparable Industrial apparatus linked to Russia's limitless limit-less resources and rich agricultural upplles, makes that one chance threatening enough profoundly to disturb a dosen governments. Caught in this titanic race, all other nations of Europe have beer forced frantically to increase theii armies, and the only comforting re flection left to the smaller etatei was that the two giants would rub each other out Now the prospect however remote, re-mote, that they could unite . is enough to bring despair to the rest of Europe, for no conceivable combination com-bination of other nations could hope to stand up against such a colossal psir, except the equally colossal but also improbsble combination of England, France and ths United States, Evidence Cited Several pieces of svldence are adduced ad-duced to support the rumor. Foremost are changes In Russia. It 'is now reported that the head of the red army, Voroshllov, who has led the anti-German policy, is In less favor with Stalin, who has elevated the chief of the red army I general staff, Igorov, a pronounced , pro-German, to actual leadership of . national defense. Meanwhile no amount of orator-(Coounued orator-(Coounued on PM Four) I ICelueu SUi EUROPE FEARS RED-IIAZI UI1I0II (OoeUewe tresi Past Oae leal hostility ketweea Hitler and aull baa ever radicated la th relohswehr IU profound preference for tha Ituaakta aUlaaeo which Bla-aurgk Bla-aurgk advooatsd, and akaadaiuaoat f whlek by WlUukn n ultimately reeuKed la Crirmanjr looo of th great war. During thooo loot four year of Hitler plaUorm campaign against tha eovtot union hi rlchwhr baa malatalnod profoMlonally correct, out landetlnly ordlal, relation with rod army ebisfs. Mow, thooo who alalm prophetic ualltle avr that Oarmany baa It la bar aara thla yaar to elsvsts Hltlar ta a position vn mora rs-metely rs-metely lofty tbaa bla proaaat one ta make him realm loader and ra-ll ra-ll klm of all out Inspirational duties whlla Ooerlng beeomea ebaaoaller, actually ta run tha retch. Shtee Frcta Jaeaa Aasoolatsd with thaaa idea ara raporta that tha relohswehr, having boon originally akeptloai of Oer-many Oer-many military pact with Japan, la doubly alaea Ha commission of Inquiry, aaat ta invostigats tba Japaaooa army, eonftdentlaUy reported re-ported that muob-toutsd military machine aa hapalaaaly antiquated by modern Iniropooji atandarda, and recommended that every effort ba made gracefully, to dissolve tha par-Uoua par-Uoua pact. Now, none of thaaa foreeaeU may came true, and la that case the proaaat rumora may prove to bo an-other an-other but mora elaaaloally aenaa-tlonal aenaa-tlonal example of that prime Instrument Instru-ment of European International politics, namely, blackmail. Hurt aa Tor tha aovtet union has been alarmed at tha Preach tendency to back aut of tha Franco-soviet pact, as exemplified by tba Prencb re-fueal re-fueal ta allow general ataff talks between tha French and red armies: ar-mies: also Moscow has resented the Freneb failure properly to aupport the Madrid government's forces against tba Oermans and Italians. Tho throat by the eovieta to abandon aban-don tha French alignment and aaek safety la tha arms of Oarmany could eoneeivahly be Intended to frighten Franca Inta giving mora help ta Madrid aad sticking closer to Rueeie, |