Evening star., 1941-06-29
Soviet Denies Hopes
Of Gaining Bosporus
And DardaneI|es
Nozi Attack on Russia
Declared Unprovoked;
Hitler Lies Charged
By tie Associated Press.

BY tie Associated Press.
MOSCOW, June 28.-Soviet Rus
sia today disclaimed ambitions on
the Dardanelles and Bosporus,
TurkiSh-controlled gateways be-
tween the Black Sea and the Medi-
terranean, and described the Ger
man attack on her as unprovoked
S. A. Lozovsky, assistant director
OF the Soviet Information Bureau
and Vice Commissar of Foreign At
fairs, was the spokesman in pre-
sentlng the Russian view of the
background of the Week-old war at
a conference with American. Brit
tsh, French, japanese and Russian
news men.
German flyers had violated the
Soviet frontier 324 times this year,
he said, often as deep as 95 miles
into Russian territory" which can
not be explained otherwise than as
desire to make reconnaissance. -
Protests April 18 and June 81, the
day before the war broke out, we're
cited.
Charges Lies by Hitler.
Adolf Hitler's declaration of war,
he charged, contains one huge lie
and SO various sized lies prepared
in the kitchen of a notorious mas
ter in this field propaganda Minis
ter Paul Joseph, Goebbels."
The vice commiSSar minimiZed
Hitler's assertion that Soviet planes
had violated the border, saying that
Russian flyers had crossed German
territory IL times, compared to 324
German violations from January l
to June l.
Lozovsky said German Foreign
Minister Joachim Won Ribbentrop
had asserted that Russia's guaran-
tee last March that Turkey could
count on understanding neutrality
from Russia if she we're attacked
was ''inimical to Germany
This, Lozovsky said, is so mon
'strous that it can only be explained
by Hitler's exaggerated conception
of his role as an individual in his
tory. Hitler's egocentrism bespeaks
a weird and dangerous psychology
Tor Jne German people.
He made third point concerning
the Turkish straits between the
Black and Mediterranean Seas.
Il don't know how much Hitler
knows about music" the Vice Com
misar said, but the played this
motif on high note"
Lozovsky said the German leader
considers himself master. having
the right to give and take others
land. Russia is not Rumania, to al
low herself to be handled as that
unfortunate country allows"
Why did Hitler play such high
note? To antagonize Turkey and
Russia and evoke inimical feelings
among the Turkish people against
the U. S. S. R?
Se have no claims on the Dar-
danelles or Bosporus. No statement
to that effect has ever been made.
This is one of the slanderouS
statements designed for people who
do not want to understand the Soviet
policy and wish to be deceived"
news agency statement before the
outbreak of the war that Germany
was fulfilling the terms of the Mos
cow-Berlin friendship treaty was is
sued with the intention of learning
German plans. When it was not
published in German controlled
countries, he said, "the German gov
eminent proved that it did not want
to fulfill its obligations.
The Vice CommisSar said Rumania
entered the war against Russia
without declaration of any kind.
TO deny everything" Lozovsky
said, "is boring, unpleasant thing,
but since lies spread We must deny
them"
1t was announced that two COM
muniques would be issued daily
henceforth on the progress of the
war, one at l pm. and the other
at midnight IS am. and pm. East
ern Standard Time)