Evening star., 1939-10-09
The War in Europe-Doy by Day
Hitler Fires Another Big Gun in His Peace Offensive,
But Fus to Get Favorable Reaction From Allies
By DEWITT MACKENZIE,

| NaZl Fuehrer Hitler brought Still
more heavy artillery into play over
the week end in ar effort to secure
Anglo-French acceptance of his
peace proposals, but thus far has
failed to evoke any favorable re-
sponse.
Another big gun was fired from
Moscow. At the conclusion of a
conference last night between Rus
sian Premier Moloton and a large
German delegation 1t was an
nounced that the Nazi- Communist
partners had agreed to make their
program of economic collaboration
effective at rapid pace and on a
large scale"
The communique amplif1ed this
by explaining that "in particular,
agreement was reached that the
U. S. S. r. should Immediately
begin supplying Germany with ma
terials and Germany filling orders
for the U. S. S. r."
This move was interpreted by
many observers as calculated to put
pressure on the allies to accept the
Hitlerian peace. The point is of
course, that should Russia place all
her resources at Germany's disposal
1t would greatly strengthen Ger
many in the war.
Return to Middle Ages"
Further support was given Hitler
in the official Soviet newspaper
Izvestia which accused Britain and
France of returning to the Middle
Ages" for waging war to "extermi-
nate Hitlerism." The paper de-
clared:
1T is impossible to exterminate
any idea or any opinion by fire and
sword"
Meantime, some sort of allied reply
was awaited, and it was said British
Premier Chamberlain might give
this in Parliament Wednesday.
Questioned in the House of Com
mons today, the Premier replied
that Britain and France are in
complete accord" as to the ,fre-
quently expressed purposes of their
participation in the war. Any more
specific statement of their war aims,
he added, would be evolved through
consultation of the two powers.
This added nothing to what had
been known before. Speculation in
diplomatic circles regarding a more
formal reply predicted the premier
would announce that Hitler's pro-
posals haven't changed Britain's
purpose of freeing Europe from the
fear of Nazi aggression"
Press Rejects Nazi Terms.
The press of both England and
France rejected the Nazi terms. The
British urged policy barring peace
"at the price of Poland" and the
Paris Figaro declared that there
is only one reply to Hitler, and that
is with cannon"
Nazidom, processing confidence
that peace would come from the
Hitler proposals, continued to sug-
gest mediation by President Roose-
velt, The President. however, has
nothing to say for the present.
While peace remained on the
wing, Soviet Leader Stain pro-
ceeded to pull bright and shining
needles out of the Eastern European
haystack.
His anteroom over the week end
was as full of foreign envoys wait
ing, hat in hand, as was ever the
court of any of the Cars of all the
Russias.
While the other major European
powers are busy with war, Stain has
been rapidly extending Russian in
f1uence in Eastern Europe.
Baltic in Stains Pocket,
He already has in his pocket
virtual control of the Eastern Baltic
through concessions for military and
naval bases reluctantly granted by
EStonia and Latvia since Poland
fell. A mission from the third
Baltic state, Lithuania, returned
from Moscow today after trying,