Evening star., 1940-09-30
Provdo Says Pact Is Due
10 Widen War Further

MOSCOW. Sept. 80 lP).-The Com
munist party newspaper Pravda de-
clared today that the new triple
axis pact, which it laid in part to
military cooperation between the
United States and Great Britain,
presages further widening Of the war.
Soviet Russia, Pravda said in an
editorial marking the first Russian
comment on the accord. remains
firmly neutral. The newspaper said
Russia was notified Of the German
Italian-Japanese alliance in advance
OF its announcement by Germany.
Accounting for the pact, Pravda
said, "Doubtlessly 1t was stimulated
in the first place by the latest facts
of intensification and extension of
military cooperation between Eng
land and the United States"
"It signifies the advent of a new
phase of the war which is more ex-
tensive than prior to conclusion of
the pact" Pravda said. IF until
lately the war has been confined to
a sphere in Europe and Northern
Africa in the West and sphere in
China in the East now an
end is being put to this separa-
"HenceforWard Japan renounces q
policy of non-intervention in Euro
pean affairs, while Germany and
Italy in their turn renounce a policy
of non-intervention in Far Eastern
affairs
This doubtless means further ag-
gravation of the war and expansion
Of its realm"
The newspaper said a significant
phase Of the pact was that "it openly
recognizes spheres of influences Of
its signatories and division of these
spheres between them with the un-
dertaking of mutual defense Of these
spheres of influence against attempts
on the part of other States-and
certainly in the first place on the
part of England and the United
States, which collaborates with her"
Pravda added:
whether signatories of the pact
will succeed in realizing in practice
such a division Of spheres OF in
fluence is a different question. Un-
doubtedly realization of such plan
will depend on real correlation OF
forces of the belligerents. and on the
issue of the present war which has
become more and more acute"
The United States and England
were said to have co-operated in
these ways:
Continuously increasing military
assistance rendered by the United
States to England; transfer Of Eng
lish naval bases in the Western Hem,
isphere to the United States: in
clusion of South American coun-
tries in the sphere Of influence Of
the United States; and England's
consent to transfer her Far Eastern
and Australian bases to the United
States"
CThere has been no report from
London or Washington that the
British have consented to trans
fer Far Eastern and Australian
bases to the United States)
"Of course" the editorial said,
'the United States has not yet
formally joined in the war on the
side of England against Germany.
Italy and Japan. But this is not
important since, in fact, the United
States is in the same common mill
tary camp with the military adver-
saries Of Germany, Italy and Japan"
Pravda said the reservations in
the pact by which the relations of
the signatories with Russia remain
unchanged should be understood in
the first place as respect on the
part of signatories of the pact for
the attitude Of neutrality which the
Soviet Union has been pursuing
since the very first days Of the war.
True to its policy of peace
and neutrality, the Soviet Union,
on its part. can confirm that, in so
far as this will depend on it, this
policy remains and will remain in
variable
The pact also was described as
showing the strength of the non-
aggression pacts between Russia and
Germany and Germany and Italy.
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