Evening star., 1939-10-31
London Goes GrimIv
About Business Of
Aiding War Plans
Many Are Cheered
By Turkish Pact
Preparations
- the Associated Press.

~ viz AASCClSteQ FISS1.
= LONDON, Oct. 3l.-Beneath the
!. deceptive tranquility of an autumn
week end Britain's soldiers, sailors
and statesmen worked at war to-
night from the North Sea to the
Dardanelles.
Millions, bored by sandbags and
blackouts, knocked off work early
just as always. and headed for the
country They were cheered by news
paper headlines which told them
"Anglo-Turkish Pact Is Ready" and
by repeated authorized assurances
that the Russian-German agree
ment on Poland and a dictated
peace changes nothing for Eng
land"
War held nothing of the thrill
Of the fleeting peace in our time"
which Prime Minister Chamberlain
brought home from Munich just one
year ago today. But steady pro-
cession of gray-clad, troop -jammed
transports steamed to France
Fleet Maintains Blockade.
, The might Of the fleet held Ger
many in Tightening blockade.
Royal Air Force bombers roared
low over the Siegfried Line with
photographers and map makers.
Whitehall threw all the power of
Its secret diplomacy into the tug
of-war for the upper hand in the
Near East and the Balkans.
News that mutual assistance and
economic agreements with Turkey
are ready for signature and that a
flve-man Turkish military mission,
headed by ruddy, handsome Gen.
Kiazim Orbay, is en- route to Lon
don was printed widely. Receiving
less prominence were reports that
the pacts contain a clause canceling
Turkish commitments if Britain and
Soviet Russia go to war.
Although official comment was
withheld, persons usually we'll in
formed said that London regarded
such an attitude on the part of
Turkey as natural because the
friendship between Turkey and Rus
sia was indispensable economically
and strategically to both countries.
The same sources predicted that
the government would make state
ment on the progress of British
Turkish alliance negotiations with
IN three days, but that this would
not deal with recent Russian
Turkish talks in Moscow.
No Relationship Is Seen.
The position taken was that these
have nothing to do with each other;
that Turkey will conclude alliances
with Britain and France; that Rus
sia, having easily obtained what it
wanted in Poland, will not attempt
to alter Turkeys diplomacy toward
Western European powers for fear
Of rupturing its friendship with the
nation that holds the Bosporus,
Russia's southern economic gateway.
On Monday or Tuesday Mr.. Cham
berlain will tell Commons what he
thinks of the Soviet-German agree
ment which partitioned Poland anew
between her conquerors and pro-
claimed basis for durable" peace
Authoritative sources have reiterated
that Britain considers the Nazi-
Soviet demand for immediate peace
as DOGGY" which will not frighten
Britain and France and will not
alter their plans for obliterating Hit
lerism even if it takes long war.
The same sources insisted that
the British view of Soviet policy is
unchanged. that Russia never will
agree to pull chestnuts out of the
fire for any other government. and
that the prospect of hostilities be-
tween Britain and France on one
side and Russia on the other is lex
tremely remote"
No Recognition for Hitler.
In support of this view, an edi-
torial in the highly authoritative
Times, suggested that Britains war
aims do not necessarily contem-
plate restoration of Poland's eastern
frontiers although Britain will not
permit recognition Of Hitler's Polish
conquest.
While asserting that there can
be no peace with Hitler" the Times
said British relations with Stain
will be decided by events"
Russia takes over in the main
white Russians and Ukrainians,"
the Times continued, while Ger
manys acquisitions contain areas
with a population indubitably
Polish"
Some observers recalled that an
editorial in the Times suggested
compromise with Germany concern
Ing the Sudetenland of Czecho-
Slovakla weeks before the Munich
conference of 1888 put such a COM
promise into effect.