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with the United States as granary
and arsenal for Britain, he added.
Russian circles in London which
admit they have been out of close
touch with Moscow for some time
because of communication problems
insist that German-Russian rela-
tions remain in friendly status quo.
Russia, however will fight any
body who attacks her they aver
But, they say, they do not believe
Hitler would be fool enough to
open new front against a foe like
the Red Army"
The foreign informant said there
was growing faction in the Krem-
lin against appeaSement of Hitler,
but there is widespread British be-
lief that a German-Russian rap
prochement involving closest eco
nomic collaboration is impending
and will be followed by a smash
against England as soon as it can
be organized.
Alternatives in Situation.
Meanwhile, bloodshed or an elev-
enth-hour yielding III Russia we're
seen as the alternatives in the rap
idly crystallizing Eastern European
situation.
Authoritative sources in Rome
said today the war economy of
both Italy and Germany had been
strengthened in an agreement
reached in Berlin which put armed
forces in position to meet new
tasks"
The agreement, they said, was
reached by committees which met
in the past fortnight. Details were
kept secret except for the disclosure
that they were largely concerned
with war supplies.
Economic, financial and monetary
problems connected with the Ital-
ian-German occupa ton of Yugo-
slavia and Greece also were solved,
an informant said.
In Turkey, whose own uneasy
state of martial law has been re-
newed in her strategic border zones
for six months, military attache
of one of the Axls-signed powers
mobilizing alongside the Nazis de-
clared a fighting showdown would
come in days-not weeks.
Russian diplomatic sources in
Turkey said the Red army was not
afraiC of test against the Nazis
and declared that Germany's re-
ported demands for control of Rus
sian grain and oil prouction would
be impossible to grant.
Frontier Reported Teeming.
Aovices from Ankara, clearing
house of both fact and fiction on the
intentions of Germany and Russia,
pictured the common frontier of the
Nazi and Communist domains as
alive with men and weapons on the
move
Rumania, Hungary and Slovakia,
all closely geared to the German
war machine, we're said to be in a
virtual war footing, with demobil-
lied reservists recalled to the colors
and towns under precautionary
DldckOut instructions.
Reports of clashes already be-
tween Russian troops and Ru-
manian border towns being avacu-
ated, cropped up again in Reuters
British news agency dispatch
from IStanbul.
Reuters also relayed a report that
Field Marshal Siegmund List. COM
mander of Germanys successful
Balkan campaign, had set Up head
quarters at Snagov, near Bucharest.
The British agency pointed out
that it had no confirmation from
other sources.
Measures Taken in North.
Other advices to Ankara indicated
that the great Red Army was
strengthening its positions in the
Far North on the basis of reports
that the Germans might have as
many as six divisions near Petsamo,
in Finland's Arctic zone.
The Red Army also has been mov-
ing heavily into its central defense
zone-from Kiev, in the Ukraine, to
MinSke, back of the old Russian
Polish frontier.
Russian dispatches in the Finnish
press indicated that women and
children perhaps were being re-
to some extent from Moscow
itself and other large cities us well
as from some town In Lithuania, the