The Archive · 1935

GERMANY'S MILITARIST CHALLENGE Clarification of Policy as Sequel to Conscription

Declaration: Alliance with Japan? Frost Our Msrane Conmstonoen

London, May 1.

'The alignment of France, Italy and the Little Entente against' Germany. the more definite attitude of Great Britain in moral support has clarin fled Germany's foreign policy. She looks eastward now to extend her borders to embrace the fifteen million Teutonic people now outside German rule. She adopts the line that Russia is her enemy and that France and Italy ought to support her against the threat of Bolshevism. As Germany Is likely to be a single state irrounded ky those who oppose her gressive expansion, it only requires turn of the wheel in Russian Polley to send her in pursuit of an alliance with Japan. The polley of the latter would be strengthened by an alliance with a country which can divide the Russian Army in two parts, but on the face of things as they" stand Japan has no need to acquire an ally since German policy, with the prospect of Polish aid, already keeps half of the Russian host in Europe. Ty is conceivable that Japan would seek an understanding if the price of not acquir. Ing it meant a future Russo-Germanic-Polish agreement that would ise the Soviet forces for Siberian operations against Manchoukuo. As Russian policy tends towards ¢o-operation with France, Germany is left with the task of containing' the Moscovites on her so-called front and so aiding the Japanese.

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