The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-01
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
copyright, 1915, by King Features Syndicate)

Copyright, 1915, by King Features Syndicate)
The library of congress has published
chronology of events leading the world into
the present war.
An item dated Aug %, 1889, is the match
that lit the fuse. On that date, the two great
dictators. Hitler and Stain, made a non
aggression treaty and Hitler told the British
ambassador that any further Polish act against
Germany or Danzig would compel him to inter-
vene defensive measure
On Aug. 90 Hitler demanded that a Polish
representative come to Berlin by midnight,
and the same day Hitler completed the seizure
of Slovakia at the invitation of the local quiz
lings who had inplored him to protect the
country against invasion by the Poles. Poland
insisted that the thing to do was to take mat
tiers up in the normal way with the Polish am
bassador in Berlin.
On Aug 30 the British ambassador called
on Herr Won Ribbentrop and insisted that the
German proposals should be handed to the Po-
fish ambassador. Ribbentrop, for reply, pro-
duced "a lengthy document which he read out
in German at top speed.
lima ginning that he would eventually hand
it to me I did not attempt to follow too close
" the sixteen or more articles which it con-
| tained,'' the British ambassador wrote.
when I asked for the text OF these pro-
posals, he asserted that it was now too late
by midnight"
On Aug 81 Germany announced that be-
cause no Polish representative had arrived
within the deadline. Germany considered that
her proposals had been rejected.
The next day, Germany invaded Poland.
Britain and France notified Germany that un-
less the German troops were withdrawn they
would fulfill their obligations to Poland
Russia invaded Poland Sept. II, just Is
days after the signing of the non-aggression
treaty, under whose further terms Russia
was to send raw materials to Germany in ex-
| change for manufactured goods On the same
day Russia notified Finland that she would
respect Finland's neutrality.
| In explanation of her invasion of Poland,
Russia announced that the government of Po-
| land had abandoned the people and that the
Polish nation and its government had vir
| tually ceased to exist. Paraphrasing Hitlers'
emotional concern for his tortured blood-broth-
ers in the Sudetenland Of Czecho-Slovakia and
initiating his humane deliverance of these pa
thetic victims by military invasion without
declaration of war, Russia deemed it her
sacred duty to extend the hand of assistance
to her brother Ukrainians'' and White Rus
slams in Poland
The partition of Poland was formerly COM
pleted in a treaty OF friendship between
Germany and Russia Sept. %. one month
after the signing of the non a ggression agree
ment
Esthonia signed a mutual assistance pact
with Russia on Sept. % and Latvia did the
same on Oct 5, each giving Russia air bases
and other controls. In each case, Russia rec
ognzed the independent political existence of
the other party and agreed not to interfere in
her internal affairs The same pledge was
given to the United States in the treaty of
recognition with the United States early in the
Roosevelt rule, only to be flagrantly violated
by the American branch of the Communist
International for years theTeafter.
Alarmed by Russian demands the Firms
modified on Oct. 9. The next day, Russia
signed with Lithuania a treaty similar to the
Esthonian and Latvian agreements. President
Roosevelt asked Russia not to make warlike
demands on Finland but on Oct / Russia.
for the safety of Leningrad and the coast of
Lithuania, whose independence the Soviet
union has undertaken to defend, did demand
the cession of Finnish territory
Finnish-Russian negotiations failed on Nov.
IS and on the 26th Russia accused the Firms
Of Smelling Russian territory. This the Firms
denied, offering to withdraw all forces ex-
cept frontier guards and customs officials.
Russia invaded Finland Nov. 80.
The book of chronology reports that Pres-
dent Roosevelt wrote that the present trend
to force makes insecure the independent exis-
tence of small nations and jeopardizes the
rights Of mankind to self-government.
BY some oversight apparently, the refer
ence service of the library of congress failed
to include further remarks by Mr.. Roosevelt
declaring the Soviet Union to be dictatorship
as absolute as any other in the world and
condemning the. invasion of a neighbor so
small that it could not possibly injure Russia.
Russia promptly set up quisling OR Com
munlst Finnish government, recognized it as
the lawful government of the democratic re-
public of Finland and announced that in res
ponse to an appeal from this body Russia had
agreed to send Russian armies to 'liquidate
the very dangerous seat of war created in
Finland by its former rulers"
The legitimate Finnish government appeal
ed to the League of Nations which expelled
Russia for aggression" Germany helped the
, Russians when they were having trouble with
the Firms and made ii Impossible for other
nations to help Finland Finland yielded on
March II, 1910.
On June Is, Russia invaded Lithuania and,
on pretexts of now familiar kind, took over
within a few days, Esthonia and Latvia as
twell. Again according to the Hitlerian pattern,
all. three requested incorporation into Russia
on July 81 by resolutions adopted in their new
Communist parlaments set up by Russia.
All this time of course, in the United States
the Communists, including many of those who
were most active in the political action COM
mittee in the recent campaign, were damning
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