The Washington times., 1935-04-01
HIDDEN FORCE
ESTIMATED At
100000 MEN !
Soviet Official Gives Warning
Of Alleged Threat to
Peace of Europe
BY LINDSAY PARROTT

MOSCOW, April / G.N.S0
Capt. Anthony Eden, in the name
of the British government, told
Soviet authorities that any wal
against the Soviet Union would
be opposed to Britain'S interests
the Bolshevik states official
mouthpiece, ISvestia. asserted to
day.
The statement was made in Q
two-column front page editorial
jubilantly assessing the results OF
the British lord privy seals visit
which ended in mutual pledges OF
cooperation for collective organ
ization of security"
Pravda, organ Of the Com
rnunist party, likewise hailed the
conversations as Of tremendous
political Importance"
Says Hitler Failed
The accord manifest when
Capt. Eden took his departure
for Warsaw yesterday shows that
Adolf Hitler did not succeed In
impreSsing the British with his
thesis of the Bolshevik menace
said Pravda. It said:
ENGLAND, by her declaration
through Captain Eden that she
Is interested in the integrity OF
the u. S. s. R., has refuted the
German desire to diSmember the
Soviet Union"
The talks, said Pravda, lied ia
very important political results,
pointing to a tremendous change
in the relations between England
and Soviet Russia"
Leaving Moscow with Josef sta
Inns pledge of Soviet cooperation
for collective organization OF Sc
curly" Captain Eden sped today
toward Warsaw, Poland, probably
the most uncertain factor In
Britain's European arms roundup
Col. Joseph Beck, the Polish for
eign minister, was expected In
wellinformed quarters to tell the
British lord privy seal that Poland
is reluctant to participate in the
East European mutual assistance
pact, keystone Of England's peace
plan.
AS a result Of the Moscow con
Versations, however. it was pre-
dicted that Britain, France, and
Russia would continue pressure
to line up as many Central and
Eastern European powers as pos
Sible in the Eastern L,ocarno,'
even without Germany and Pc
land.
The British and Soviet leaders
said a communique issued after
Captain Eden's series Of talks
here, "are of the opinion that
in the present international stu
alton, it is more than ever neceS
Sary to promote the building up
of a system of collective security
It was emphasized that the
proposed eastern pact would mot
aim at the enlightenment Of any
country, but at the creation Of
equal security for all partici
pants"
Will Visit Prague
After Warsaw, Captain Eden
goes to Prague, where he is likely
to win the cooperation Of the
Little Entente, of which Czecho
slovakia is a member. Like the
Little Entente, Poland formerly
worked in close union with
France, but in the last two years
there has been a noticeable trend
toward collaboration with Ger
many, in spite Of the quarrel ovel
the Polish Corridor.
The lord privy seals departure
was Signalized by grim warning
by <Mikhail Toukachevsky, as
gistai1t commiSsar Of defense, In
the Communist party paper
Pravda that Germany would be
in q position next year to march
eastward with a million men.
The Reich, said ToukachevSky
would have $4,000 soldiers Thu
summer-40 per cent more thar
France and nearly as many 81
Russia's 100000. In addition, hi
estimated Germany'S bidder
Forces" such as storm troopers
ut 100000.
Thirty-Seven hundred airplane!
actually in commission, an all
staff Of $4,000, a navy including
nine battleships and IS subma
rineS, and a highly-mechanizeC
army were other elements the of
ficer mentioned that Germany
coUHd use in a war to be stagec
entirely on enemy territory aftel
q surprise attack.
Spread prominently in the part!
organ, ToukachevSky'S warning
had the nature of an officia
document.