Evening star., 1940-09-29
Axis Powers Agreed
On Russia Sphere,
Informed Nazis Say
Borders Have Been Fixed
According to Principle,
News Commentary Stotes
By the Associated Press

BERLIN, sept. Z8.-GermdnE.
Italy and Japan have agreed
among themselves as TO just what
area in the proposed new world
order is to be under the leadership"
Of Soviet Russia, as we'll as what
areas are to be under their own
respective controls. informed Nazi
sources disclosed tonight.
The extent and nature of this as.
signment to the Soviet was not
mentioned by the informant, the
authoritative commentary Dienst
aus Deutschland. but 1t was said the
step had been taken so that there
can be no question of encroach-
ment in foreign spaces by these
powers.
Dienst injected some confusion
over the three treaty signers "ab-
solute agreement" however. with a
statement that the borders had
not been fixed locally according to
geographic details" but only "ac-
cording to principle
There exists no need il declared,
"for an exact fixing of borders in
every detail
Displeased by Hull Statement.
An indication also was given by
Dienst that United States Secretary
of State Cordell Hull's description
of the pact as a document which
only publicized something already
known r'iI not sit very we'll with
some circles.
Despite american and British at
tempts to represent the pact as
nothing new, the service said, the
American press accepted it as the
most sensational political event
since the beginning of the war,
thereby recognizing its significance,
While spokesmen declined to be
specific as to where the Russian and
japanese spheres are to meet. 1t Is
obviously expected in the foreign
Office that Japan will clear up any
lingering misunderstanding with the
Soviet over disputed borders. 1t
was indicated. too. that the Soviet
shipment of arms to China is being
overlooked.
There still was no published press
or official reaction from Moscow.
but D. N B., the official German
news agency, asserted by inference
that it was favorable.
"Spaces" to Be Marked Out.
The spaces" of the powers-in
Europe. Africa, East Asia-are to
be marked out under the terms Of
the broad new military political
economic alliance with which Ger
many, Italy and Japan yesterday
confronted the world.
Whether Russia had been in
formed of all this in advance was
not stated officially. Many German
commentators said she had been
told of all the steps that preceded
the alliance, but for tbis there was
no official confirmation.
German government quarters de-
clared. however, that the relation
of each state to its space" would
be one not of "monopolistic rule"
but rather one of leadership"
The position of the United States
under the new alliance-which
plainly implies that Japan, Ger
many and Italy will band together
in war against America if that
country should become involved
with either of them-stirred con-
lecture during the day.
If the United States continues to
supply arms and munitions to Bri-
tain, authorized persons said, it
might or might not cause con-
flict. the issue depending largely on
whether such aid would be likely
to decisively affect the war
The pact is directed against the
spirit of Intervention and widen
ing of the conflict" they added.
Supplying arms is one manifesto
ton of the interventionist spirit.
Just when and whether furnishing
instruments of war leads to open
conflict with the contracting parties
of the three-power pact is presently
a theoretical question
Monroe Doctrine Unopposed.
The recent tender Of so Ameri-
can destroyers to Britain and the
United States acquisition Of British
Western Hemisphere bases, 1t was
said authoritatively, did not, In the
German view, indicate conflict over
that incident.
On the question of the Americas,
these persons said:
I'VE have never opposed your
American Monroe Doctrine. We
have no desire or intention to extend
our defensive frontiers, say to the
waters of the Amazon. We have
never thought of interfering within
the area affected by the Monroe
Doctrine and do not intend to do so
In the future"
AS to the recent rumors that the
United States might acquire the