Evening star., 1941-11-24
Anti-Comintern Pact
Will Be Signed by
Finland, Nazis Say
Six Other Governments
Also Reported Ready
To Join Lineup
b. the Associated Press.

B. the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Nov. 24-Authorized
Germans announced today that
seven more governments would join
the six present signers OF the Anti
Comintern Pact tomorrow.
The seven new signers are to
be Finland, Denmark. Bulgaria.
Croatia, Rumania, Slovakia and the
Japanese-sponSored Marking gov
ernment. Germany, Japan, Italy,
Spain, Hungary and ManchuKuo
are to renew their signatures at
a ceremony marking the 5th ami
versary Of the pact.
Finland, Denmark, Bulgaria and
Croatia are to be represented by
their foreign ministers, the an
nouncement said; Rumanla by Vice
Premier Mihail Antonescu, Slovakia
by Premier Dr. Joseph Tiso and
Nanking lin a special manner"
Besides the desire of Italy and
Germany to form a European bloc
against what their statesmen call
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Russian expansion, observers read
into the announcement that the
ceremony is connected with the
fight against world Bolshevism."
reference to Britain and the United
States who Germany considers
sponsors of world Bolshevism.
Continental Solidarity.
Thus observers stressed tomor-
rows ceremony as marking conti-
mental solidarity against both Rus
sian -Slavism and world Boil
SheviSm"
Although German efforts to bring
France and Turkey into the align
ment have beep increasingly ap-
parent 1t remained anybody's guess
whether either country would be
represented tomorrow.
Italy's delegation. headed by For
eign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano.
was the first to reach Berlin and
got an impressive welcome at the
flag -draped station from For
eien Minister Joachim Ribbentrop
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and Italian Ambassador Dino Al
f1eri.
After taking the Aalue of an honor
company Ciano was escorted to Ger
many'S state guest house, the Belle
vue Palace.
The connnental -Comintern
lineup as ii will stand after the
adherence of the seven new nations
tomorrow will leave only Turkey,
Portgual. Sweden, Switzerland,
Greece, France, Belgium and the
Netherlands outside the fold.
French adherence. Germans said,
was impractical until relations be-
tween Vichy and the Axis powers
had been definitely settled by a
final peace agreement replacing the
armistice
DR.. Lazlo de Bardossy Hungary's
Premier, arrived shortly after Ciano.
Asked whether any nation had de-
clined an invitation to be present,
an authorized source replied:
German diplomacy is such that
it never received a refusal"
Persistent reSrts of another i'm
pending meeting. at which Adolf
Hitler, Premier Mussolini and Mar
shall Petain would sit down at the
conference table, remained uncon-
firmed here.
There have been widespread re-
ports of late that Hitler was plan
ming some sort of political surprise
regarding the European situation.
Only last Saturday White House
statement said he had in mind the
arrangement Of some high sound
ing formula or economic rehabilita-
ton and restoration of independ-
ence for all European nations"
The German announcement failed
to say whether it might be the pur-
pose of today's get-together to ad-
vance European federation or
German-sponsored new order
Nazi propagandists have tried
since the invasion Of Russia to
create the appearance of a united
European front against Commu-
nism.
At the same time. Vichy has an
nounced that Marshal Petain would
60 to occupied France early this
week to see a high German official,
possibly Hitler himself.
1t was hinted further that the
marshal's trip might be connected
in some way with Mediterranean
developments, possibly involving
Spain. The chief of the Spanish
Falangist Militia already is in
Berlin.
Recent European advices to the
Associated Press indicated the Ger
mans were pressing the Vichy
regime to cast its lot out and out
with the Axis. perhaps to the ex-
tent of full membership in the new
order. rendering air bases and
transit facilities to Germany and
Italy to bolster them against the
British offensive in Libya. and con-
voying Italian ships in the Medi-
terranean.
AS for the anti-comintern front
itself, Italy became the third men,
ber of the bloc in November. 1897:
Manchukuo and Hungary joined in
February, 1899, and Spain in March,
1899.
Five-Year Binding.
The i-cointern pact is not
to be confused with the Rome
Berlin-Tokio alliance signed Sep
tember q, 1910, and broadened later
by the adherence through protocols
of number of smaller nations.
Under the original anti-comintern
pact, Germany and Japan bound
themselves for a period Of five years
to Cd inform and consult with
each other and execute cooperative
action to combat Communist Inter-
rationale activity; (2) invite third
parties whose domestic peace is
endangered by the disruptive activ-
tiles of the Communist Interna-
tionale' to join them; 80 exchange
police information on the subject;
90 take strict measures at home
or abroad against persons who
directly or indirectly serve the Com