Evening star., 1939-06-07
Germany Concludes
Security Accords
With Latvia, Estonia
Poets Seen Checks to
Effort to Bring Soviet
Into Triple Entente
BY WALLACE r. DEUEL.,

Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent.
BERLIN, June 7 (by radio) -
What the Nazis consider a new
German victory over the stop Hit
Ter" alliance was formally con-
f1rmed here today when non-ag-
gression pacts were signed between
Germany and Latvia and Germany
and Estonia.
The new pacts will check, If not
altogether prevent, attempts by
France and England to bring Rus
sia into new triple entente, it is
believed here. For Russia demands
that France and England guarantee
the Baltic states as part of the
stop Hitler" plan-and Latvia and
Estonia have promised Germany not
to accept such guarantee as part of
their understanding with the Reich,
it is said here.
Soviet Counts on Baltic Bases.
The Soviets want to be able to
count on using Latvian and Es-
tonlan territory and ports as bases
of operation in case of war, the
Nazls declare. But todays new pacts
Will go far toward making this
impossible.
(The pacts with Latvia and
Estonia have the same text and
provide that if the treaty be-
tween Germany and one of the
two Baltic states becomes void
the other treaty may be renewed
following negotiations at the
suggestion Of either party.
(The agreements are almost
Identical with those signed with
Denmark last week and provide
that in case of war the continual
ton OF normal commerce with
third nations by Baltic states will
not be regarded as support of
these nations, even though they
are engaged in conflict with Ger
manyD
Reich Wants Neutral Neighbors.
Germany is satisfied if its neigh
bors will remain strictly neutral,
the VoelkiScher Beobachter asserts:
1T is enough for the vital needs
OF the National Socialist Reich" it
says. If its immediate and more
remote neighbors carry on lively ex-
changes of goods which are based
on natural geographic conditions
and which confer advantages on
both sides.
For the rest, we require only one
more thing OF them: Refusal to bow
to the policy of geographically re-
mote alliances of the Western i'm.
perialists and to enter into an un-
natural and unnecessary front
against Germany.
That is the great lesson which
every country and every people
which still has it's five senses will
learn from treaties between the
Reich and Denmark, Lithuania. Es-
thonia and Latvia, and from the re-
lations of hearty friendship between
Germany and Yugslavia and Spain"
Hitler Sees Army Chiefs.
Spain continues to occupy much
attention in responsible quarters
at length late yesterday with high
ranking German, Italian and Span
lsh officers who have just returned
from Spain. Important political
discussions are understood to have
taken place.
Gems. Miguel Amanda and Gonzalo
Queipo de Llano in particular are
believed to be intruSted with polit-
ical missions here. and conversations
among the German. italian and
Spanish general stats are foreseen
for later.
German-Spanish trade negotia-
tions now being conducted in Bur-
gos are expected to lead in the end
to the setting up of a joint Ger
man. Italian-Spanish cartel for car
rying on economic dealings among
the three countries.
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