The Washington times., 1935-03-29
SOVIET IS FIRM
AGAINST WAR,
He ASSERTS
Germany Is Reassured by
Foreign Minister in Par
ley With BritiSher
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ability to get a word in edgeways
with Hitler. Publicly, the British
foreign office denies the result Of
the Berlin meeting was utterly
negative, but privately, word has
gone around the British ministers
were devastated by dimensions OF
the Germans demands and by the
Germans uncompromising hoStil-
ity to the Soviet Union.
Britons don't like the Boil
sheviks any more than the Ger.
mans do but Simon and Eden
firmly believe no sort Of Euro
pean peace can be established
without having Russia as a part
ner.
The German attitude, however.
was that the other powers must
combine against the Soviet Union
ana refuse to enter any kind OF
collective agreement with her.
Ends 1S-Year Silence
Now, for the first time since
Bolsheviks slew the British at
tache at Petrograd, for the first
time since British troops with
drew from Russia, for the first
time in 10 years, the British gov
eminent has sent q minister to
talk to Russia.
It is one of the most humanity,
as well as politically interesting
personal meetings in postwar his.
tory.
Eden is q young and handsome
product of England's upper class
schools and upper class society.
He talks the language Of the
Mayfair drawing room. He Is so
sensitive he bushes when Wins
ton Churchill kids him in the
House of Commons. He has spent
his life in the company Of gentle"
men.
Today he meets Josef "soso"
DjugaShvili Stain, whose father
was a Georgian cobbler. Stain
spent the first part Of his life
breaking out of czarist jails and
the latter part of his life shoot
ing people who used to shoot at
him.
Good Listener
Eden was disturbed when he
conversed with Ex-Corporal Adolf
Hitler, now master Of $4,000, 900
Germans. Today he is talking
with Exconvict Josef Stain, now
master Of 165, 100000 Russians.
Eden, though an aristocrat,
represents democratic Britain. In
Germany he had to listen to a
Fuehrer whom millions of Ger
mans consider semi-divine. Now
Iae must listen to the man who
millions of Russians call Stain
the Great" and Pride OF the
Soviet Union"
Hitler wears q tiny, close
cropped muStache. Stain wears
a huge mule-tail mustache and
listens increasingly.
Eden wears morning coat
and striped trousers and looks
like an advertisement for Sa-
vile Row tailor. Stain wears a
workman's jacket and looks the
part Of the hard-boiled boss of
the most hard-boiled government
on earth.
: Today Eden in his morning
coat has to make up Britain's
mind between Hitler and his
storm troop blouse and half a
million German soldiers a n d
Stain in his workman's blouse
and a million Russian soldiers.
Now, for the first time, 1t has be-
come clear that the balance Of
power in the European continent
lies not between France and Ger
many but between Russia and
Germany. Britain's traditional
policy of maintaining the balance
of power on the Continent has not
changed.
Important Decision
She, as always, will throw her
weight on the side Of the weaker
power in order to maintain that
balance which is necessary to keep
Britain from being overwhelmed
by one dominant European nation.
D., Today-Berlin shouts at Britain
.:"Look at Moscow, there's your dan
ger?" and Moscow shouts back,
Look at Berlin, there's your dan
0erI"