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...Moscow made it abundantly clear that the frontiers of the USSR and the character of the Polish government are to be settled unilaterally...

...Stalin has found a way of exerting the necessary pressure on the British Empire to .make it lie down in his path for an easy hurdle...

...at what point will Britain decide that appeasement is a sucker'* game . . . and will America back up Britain at that point...

...The Soviet Government itself has done the cause of United Nations unity serious damage, and makes farther reticience naive...

...But whether Stalin can succeed where the Kaiser and Hitler failed remains to be seen...

...the Kremlin rejected the offer of the United State* to mediate in the Polish border dispute...

...The great question is...

...Prussfan propagandists of that day spoke of the Drang nach Oil*n...

...He had planted one foot firmly in Spain and lucceeded in maintaining his hegemony over that outpost of the great triangle all through the First World War...

...At the time there was some reason for hope that relations between the Soviet Union and the Anglo-American Allies might soon improve...

...And Britain, facing the showdown decision of which would be easier to sacrifice—India or Europe—finds it less of a deprivation to give up Europe, which it does not posse**, rather than India, which she doe...

...The big reason for British alliance with Japan in the past, I was told by authoritative source, wss because Japan always had been a pistol pointed at Russia, to keep its hand* off India...

...This was the explanation I got...

...Thus Japan, within any foreseeable future, can not again serve as a British weapon...

...Hence it Becomes mandatory to inform the American people of the serious situation that exists...

...One of the groat obstacle* that confronted ths Kaiser and Hitler was the British Empire...

...In recent years...

...It serves notice on the Vatican that Russia will brook no interference on the part of the Church...

...nd finally, livtttia has denounced the Vatican as Pro-fascist, Catholic spokesmen have declared that the communist attack on the Vatican is an attempt to confuse the political atmosphere in preparation for a separate P*ae* with the German Army after the overthrow of Hitler...

...Capital Comment By JONATHAN STOUT Russia's Plan For a Stalin Europe — Exposed WASHINGTON, D. C— Intercepted documents now m til* possession of the United States Government lay here the plant of the Soviet Union, through puppet regime* and by force, to eitabliih Russian hegemony over the whole of continental Europe and Asia Minor...

...Nor is there any other country in Asia that can serve in such a role—¦ certainly not China, which must remain weak in major military affairs until she becomes industrially developed...

...A series of recent events have now removed all reason for further silence: Pravda, Soviet communist house organ, published an arrogant reply to Willkie'* appeal for better understanding, rebuffing him for suggesting that Washington and London might help to solve the Polish question...

...There is some reason-to believe that, in the carrying out of such s plsn, Stalin enjoys some natural advantsges the Kaiser and Hitler did m c have...

...There was the possibility that the series of Ameriean'-British-Soviet conferences might induce Stalin to drop his "blueprint" for Europe and Asia Minor...

...Hitler revived the Kaiser's shattered dream and tried to draw the great triangle again with Berlin at its spex...

...Britain, therefore, is vulnerable to the threat of Russian ambitions in India...

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...Soon Japan is to share the fate of its Axis partners and cease to exist as a great military power...

...If you will remember," he said, "this was originally the dream of the Kaiser...

...Pulling down a wall map in his office, the official with whom I had the interview illustrated his revelations graphically...

...Pravda published the deliberate lie that British officials conferred secretly with Ribbentrop with the object of negotiating terms of a separate peace...

...Then the Kaiser tried to drive through to Baghdad...

...And now thst Hitler's dream is going the wsy of the Kaiser's, Stalin has moved the apex from Berlin to Moscow and taken over the great triangle plan aa his own...

...And whoever csn establish s hegemony over this fabulously rich and potent triangle automatically becomes the undisputed master of the world, it was added...

...Now Japan no longer aerve* the role of a British pistol in Asia...

...After a great deal of thought, I decided at that time, in the interests of United Nations unity and amity, to refrain from revealing in full the sensational details of that interview...

...The area which is the object of the intercepted "Usiian plans, I was told, comprises a great triangle lying roughly within a line drawn from Moscow to Baghdad, from Moscow to Madrid, and from Madrid to Baghdad...

...Neither was ever able to solve the problem of overcoming that obstacle...

...Russia has used falsehoods ¦ propaganda against its Allies...

...One of the highest officials in the Administration told me this last October...

...If the Soviet plans thereby wound up as just another diplomatic pipedream, and as long ts such an eventuality remained a possibility, it was considered that publication of the story st that time would serve no constructive purpose—and might injure the budding efforts of the American and British government* to reach an understanding with Stalin by which the Soviet Union could join with all the United Nations, including the small nations of Europe, in sn amicable and honest program for implementing the great democratic principles of the Atlantic Charter...

...This area takes in the nations of the Baltic, Poland, Germany, Franco, Spain, Switserland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Trans-Jordan and Iraq...

...And that waa the lever which Stalin used in forcing the British to cede 'the Balkans to Russisn hegemony last October, and i* now using to put the squeeze on the Britiih to capitulate in Poland...

...Stalin is preparh»i the Russian people, and Comintern followers throughout the world, for the establishment of pupP»t regimes in the Baltic and Balkan States and in Poland and Finland, and pro-Soviet governments in Germany and other European countrise, and for a Possible separate peace if necessity arises...

...Within this enormous triangle, it was pointed out to me, lies the world's greatest concentration of rich and varied raw materials and of the most highly skilled manpower reserve...

...The intercepted proofs in the possession of the United States Government, the high Adminlstrstion •¦thority told mo, reveal that from the beginning •Win's ambitions transcended anything as smsll as ¦ hegemony merely over central and eastern Europe...