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Show Consumers Remaking Old "World By PERDIX Shrewd financial observers rats ' Moscow's and London's widely publicised haggling over the proposed pro-posed alliance as a first class diplomatic dip-lomatic victory for Hitler. Over a period of years, they say, ths retch's skillful propaganda (intentionally (inten-tionally or otherwise) has succeeded suc-ceeded in creating Anglo-Russian mutual distrust to the point where any eventual agreement means little. lit-tle. In spite of all pressure In favor of a soviet pact which ia now being be-ing exercised by many English liberals led by Major At lee and his labor party associates many of whom, incidentally, were ardent supporters of the ex-loyalist regime re-gime in Spain the average Englishman En-glishman cordially despises organised organ-ised proletarian society as manifested mani-fested In Russia, and still entertains enter-tains serious apprehension of communist agitation for destruction destruc-tion of the British mode of life with all IU ritualistic formality which Is so dear to him. The Russians, on the other hand, eagerly applauded and accepted ac-cepted as justified the frequent nasi attacks on "London's bourgeois bour-geois capitalism" and 'its sinister and unscrupulous exploitation of other peoples the world over." Beclouded by this visible smoke of battle between Inherently Incompatible In-compatible ideologies, lie realistically realisti-cally cold economic facts that neither th British nor the Russian Rus-sian governmenta care to employ as spotirght news. That's why students stu-dents of event here place enormous enor-mous emphasis on private reports by trained economic experts. These people feel that th area of military alliance In th Machiavellian Machi-avellian sens is a thing of ths past Victories are of highly problematical prob-lematical value to an ill-fed home population that may be subject to revolutionary propaganda from the outside. Territorial conquests bold likewise no alluring promise for the statesman of this century, unless he Is able to coordinate bis new acquisitions geographically into his own trading and industrial indus-trial area. From that point of view Hitler's moves were logical, but Britain's proposed alliance with Russia Is not a natural one. There ia no , geographical proximity that could ' not be easily cut off in times of emergency. In such an event British Brit-ish industrial help which they may now offer would be nonexistent nonex-istent Both countries are producers pro-ducers of more or less the identical identi-cal basic raw materials in the world and natural competitors, not allies. Russia could not expect to sell its oil. its wheat, its cotton, its iron, its gold and its timber without with-out danger of interference from without, and. alio because Britain and its dominions have all that themselves. The soviet csn hardly hope for much help from England for the solution of their problems. Therefore, from their own point of view, why should they risk the very existence of the soviet system, sys-tem, which geographically and economically is the most compact In the world, in defense of th British empire and its far-flung competitive trading Interests? If an Anglo-soviet pact should nevertheless materialise, it will cost Britain more than mere high-sounding high-sounding -promises to uphold ths independence of small nations (like Ethiopia and Czecbo-Slo-vakia). Following this line of thought to conclusion, economic experts foreshadow fore-shadow that Russia will play the English card for what it la worth and will at the same time arrive at satisfactory terms with the reich. People in ths know Insist Russo-German Russo-German talks have been going on for soms time and are proceeding proceed-ing satisfactorily. Moscow's surplus sur-plus oil under recent trade arrangements ar-rangements Is flowing steadily into German storage tanks. Just bow the reich pays for this and other favors Is kept a dark secret by both sides, but there are reports re-ports of increased German shipments ship-ments of machinery and eastward east-ward travel of engineers. Such an arrangement economists point oat. is a natural on for both countries. Their interests are complementary com-plementary and assure the fullest reciprocity and benefit to both, economically, geographically and technically. Insiders therefore expect ex-pect t see a gradual gravitation of th two countries to a common pole. Whether Stalin or Hitler will ever come out openly in fsvor of one another is an academic question ques-tion at best The fact is, though, that ths controlled German press is plsying up Russia as distinct from communism and hss been willing to accept Litvinov's exit as manifestation of an Important change of Kremlin policy. Perhaps Per-haps other change of official personnel are in the offing to facilitate fa-cilitate an open rapprochement, it is suggested. Moscow's publicly announced sanction of the Anglo-Turkish pact as a link In ths "sntiaggres-won "sntiaggres-won front" Is no proof to th contrary, con-trary, if Stalin wishes to conceal his real aims. It msy indeed indicate genuine pleasure, because Turkey and Russia have been centuries-old enemies and contestants for pos-sion pos-sion of th Dardanelles, which dominate entry to Russia's rich Black ea territories and their convenient over-water access to the world markets. One of ths secret clauses of old triple al-liaacs al-liaacs pact promised the cxar the Bosporus and the Dardanelles as her main spoils la a victorious World wsr. Any reader may draw hi own implications. In the meantime, Jugoslavia's Prince Regent Psul and his wifs are being wined and dined for a fuU week by Adolf Hitler and his official family. Aside from ths fact that the prince's brother-in-law. Count Toering, is a resident of Munich and very close to der fuehrer personally, there le no doubt that Jugoslavia will "wholeheartedly" subscribe to German suggestions. Almost 0 per cent of all its export) already go to the reich and an equal ratio of Import emanate In Greater Germany. The Jugoslav government has Just as many dissatisfied minorities minori-ties aa Rumania and caa. therefore. there-fore. Ill afford I lay itself open to autonomy agitation within its borders, aa happened la Czechoslovakia. Czecho-slovakia. Its full initiation as a member of the axis family or ae an alternative to that it disappearancemay dis-appearancemay therefore be expected. ex-pected. Copyright. 193. McClure a Syndicate, |