Evening star., 1939-07-08
BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER.

Chcaso Daily News Foreign Correspondent
PARIS, July 8.-Those Europeans
who are convinced that Soviet
Russia, by its mere existence. con-
stituteS a greater danger to the
bourgeois, middle-class capitalist
world than the savagery of Nazi
Germany, are happy. For there
seems real chance that Russia will
not be included Immediately within
the peace front and that the latter
will be menaced with disintegration
an event which can lead either to
immediate war or to new capitula-
ton.
Taunts and hard words are being
softly exchanged between the Boil
sheviks and the Democrats. The
latter declare that the Russians
have constantly raised their terms
that they have been pulling the
democracies' leg, that they do not
really want pact, that thev are
secretly negotiating simultaneously
with the Germans, and that, prob
ably, they wish to see a war start
between the axis and the democ-
racieS and then to intervene or not
at their own pleasure and on their
own terms.
The Soviets retort that imme-
diately after the seizure of Prague
in March they offered a real pact
against aggression which the de-
mocracies refused; that again on
June they offered a real pact,
which was again refused, that if
they have raised theeir demands to-
day it is because they have become
sure that the democracies are still
ready to continue with what Die
tator Josef V. Stain calls double
dealing. AS the Russians see the
matter, the democratic leaders IA
vored Fascism in Ethiopia, were pre-
pared to let Japan take China, sold
| out the Spanish republic to Gen
Francisco Franco, the Germans and
the Italians: betrayed the Czechs in
the hope of directing German ag-
gression against Russia. and only
offered cooperation when they
were threatened at home.
Doubt "Appeasement" Is Over.
Nevertheless, the BolshevikS, who
pride themselves on being realists
would, they maintain, still be will
ing to cooperate with the democ-
racies if they could be absolutely
certain that "appeasement' at the
expense of weaker third parties was
| definitely over, and if the democ-
racies were determined to crush
FaSciSm.
| But, according to the Russians
/ this is not the case. The democra
cies, though promising guarantees
to numerous possible allies, are
| still trying 10 "appease" Reichs-
fuerhrer Adolf Hitler. Asked fol
evidence, the Bolsheviks list severa
| things. They declare that the Pope
would never have dared to accept
Italy's suggestion and try to mediate
the Danzig affair if he had not beer
encouraged by London They point
to Great Britain's prompt delivery
of the Czech gold to Berlin, to the
supposed French intention of hand
ing the Spanish gold back to Gen
Franco, to the French continuing
to sell millions of tons of iron ore
to Germany. to the fact that the
British accepted to negotiate the
Tientsin affair with Japan, newt
ably, the Russians maintain, at
China's expense. Finally, they
charge the British and French with
having, at least temporary, pre-
vented the Poles from sending to
the Danzig Senate a stiff protest
note against militarization of the
Free City.
What more evidence" the Rus
slams ask, could be required to
prove that appeasement or Cham
berlainism" is still existent?" There
fore, the need for having an abso-
lutely ironclad pact with probable
double dealers, land if you cannot
have it, then no pact at ALL In
other words, the Russians insist
upon an agreement which will make
further appeasement impossible.
Wants Inflexible Pact.
But the British would be entirely
willing to yield on small, or what
they consider nimportant, things.
Therefore, both they and the French
are inclined to answer that the Rus
slams are trying to make war in