Germany has launched a diplomatic campaign to forge an alliance with Poland and Rumania against the Soviet Union, it was reported here today, according to the Havas News Agency.
The essential strategy of this campaign was outlined by the Berliner Tageblatt which yesterday hailed the “awakening” of Poland and Rumania to what it called the need for solidarity among the Soviet Union’s neighbors.
“If the hour for settlement of accounts with the Russian-Soviet colossus should sound one day, the two neighbors of Russia will be too weak to meet the blow,” the paper said. “One need not be a great military expert to realize that support can be given them only by the Reich and that bloc of powers which has just been formed in southeastern Europe under Italy’s aegis.
“Because the Slavic power consciously hostile to the Soviet Union extends in the Balkans from the Alps and the Adriatic as far as the
Black Sea, the more quickly it is realized by Warsaw and Bucharest the more profitable it will be to all those interested, since cooperation as important as that which will be needed jointly to repulse a Russian attack must be prepared to be efficacious.
“It would be improvident,” the Tageblatt warned, “to base it on improvisations. Such preparation ought not only to be military, but psychological as well. The conversations between (Polish Foreign Minister Jozef) Beck and Antonescu (Rumanian Foreign Minister Victor Antonescu) can only fortify the solidarity of all Soviet Russia’s neighbors. The rest must come from natural political development.”
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