Show nei NEWS ws RE REVIEW viea w nazi soviet pact told too oo 00 much aid hoover tho the celebrated cold war has been enriched by another U S propaganda strike probably the heaviest yet against russia it took the form of official state department publication of captured german foreign office records revealing the extent and nature of nari relations from 1939 1039 to 1941 the period cove covered redby by the pact between the tha awo nations which ended when huler hitler attacked attack edthe the russians on june 22 1841 1941 in the light of the U salustian SAlus S sian wartime alliance the nazi documents ments published in book form tell a sordid story of secret agreements agreen jents global gambling with nations for stakes and the fetish of political expediency which gripped the minds of german I 1 end and russian leaders beforehand before and during themar the war high point of the hitherto secret dossier do was the revelation that in 1040 adolf hitler and V VM M molotov of russia that britain and the U 8 si must be ba excluded from europe asia and africa the book told also how in stalin had offered to join the ger man idallan japanese axis if 11 hitler would give russia a free hand in finland a aj military base near the dardanelles Darda nelles ned and a dominant voice in the oll ou rich middle east then the documents show how hitler disdaining even to answer proposition pro post ordered his armies to prepare to crush soviet russia in a quick campaign ono one of the major factors which precipitated the german attack on russia was the soviet demand for dominant dominan t control of the balkans hitler who wafaa aware as any man lf of the political economic and strategic value of the pivotal balkan area turned thumbs down on that Itus russian sian d desire also sum and substance of the state departments spectacular publication of the nazi docu documents menti was little more than an emphatic indication of an already well known knon fact f that russia with aggressive consistency has been hungering for years for leadership in the balkans tor for new preeminence pre pro eminence in the dardanelles Darda nelles for expansion in central asia and for a free hand in finland and poland value of the publication of these documents at this time Is questionable despite the flagrantly apparent anti russion russian propaganda they can angwill and will inspire state departments action obviously was aimed at rally fally ing public support behind the marshall plan boon to come upeor up for congressional gress lonal action but it also would serve to aggravate and inflame the already dangerously touchy cold war |