Evening star., 1948-02-12
Reds Charge Britain,
France Tried 10 Turn
Hitler Against Soviet
BY the Associated Press


MOSCOW, Feb. IL. - Russia
says Great Britain and France
before the war encouraged Adolf
Hitler to turn the German Army
against the Soviet Union.
She charges that they let Ger.
many take over Czechoslovakia and
In the pact of Munich and others
entered into non-aggression agree.
ments with Germany's Fuehrer.
These accusations were made In 9
statement issued last night by the
Soviet Information Bureau. In sup.
port of them, the bureau cited Ger.
man Foreign Office documents fol
1887 and 1888 which it said the Rec
Army had captured.
Second Answer to u. s. q
+ The statement was Russia's sec.
ond in reply to publication of papers
on Nazi-Soviet relations by the
United States. This one said little
about the United States.
(The State Department pub
lished captured documents jan
uary 81 which said Hitler and
Stain plotted to split up Poland,
dominate the Balkans and shut
the western powers out of Eur
ope altogether.
Qn Washington last night no
comment was forthcoming from
the department on the latest So
Wet statement.
(The British Foreign Office
said the Soviet charge of Brit
ish deal with Hitler in 1888 is
"quite obviously unfounded," and
hardly requires a denial"
Earlier Foreign Oface
spokesman said after a study Of
"bits and pieces" of documents
broadcast by Moscow I'VE are not
in a position to say that we can
verify them all" He added that
some Of the broadcast data were
$50 colorless no one would want
to 60 to the trouble of inventing
them"
(The French Foreign Ministry
did not comment0
Hitler Used as "Tool."
The Soviet communique sale
British French policy before the
war was aimed "at isolating the
U. S. s. r. and directing Hitlerite
aggression towards the East against
the Soviet Union, using Hitler as 9
tool for their own ends"
It declared that Hitler's annexa-
ton of Austria March IL, 1888, met
no resistance on the part of Britain
and France and that in the face oi
Czechoslovakia's appeals for help
against Germany under mutual
assistance pact, "the Anglo-French
rulers remained implacable."
Russia alone, the. communique
said, raised a voice of warning at
the time of Anschluss and cham
pioned Czechoslovak independence
1t remarked that Britain and
France "hypocritically declared they
did not know whether or not the
Soviet Union would live up to its
pledges" to Czechoslovakia. This 1t
called a deliberate lie."
The bureau said the Munich pact
of September 80, 1888, between the
late British Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain and Hitler and sub
sequeuts agreements essentially
"meait both BRIAN andsE france
conclssa ~ with Hser 81 nena son e
pactS.~ ~ e s''ss'ssasss
I'm their desire to ward of the
menace 0 Hitlerite aggression from
their countries" it declared. "(They)
believed that the Munich agree
ment and similar ones flung the
gates wide open for Hitlerite ag-
gression in the East-aggression
against the Soviet Union"
The bureau quoted statements It
said were made in:
Cd A talk between Hitler and
Viscount (now the Earl of Halifax
Cat that time Lord President of
the CormciD in, the presence Of
Baron Konstantin Won Neurath
(then German Foreign Minister)
November 10, 1887, in Obersalzberg
(on the edge of Berchtesgaden, Ba-
varia). ~e
(2) A talk between Hitler and the
late Sir Neville Henderson, British
Ambassador to Germany, March 3,
1888. in the presence of the late
Foreign Minister Joachim Won Rib
bentrop.
90 A report to Berlin from Her