The Archive · 1939

Yugoslavia Impressed

Belgrade, Oct. 2.

The speech made last night by Mr. Winston Churchill First Lord of the British Admiralty, created a deep impression in Yugoslavia, particularly his reference to the coincidence of interests between Russia, Britain and France.

The "Politika" features the sentence of the speech in which Mr, Churchill said that "it is incompatible with Russia's safety that Germany should crush the Baltic States or the Slavonic peoples of South-Eastern Europe,"

"After the first moment of sur-the paper adds, "Yugoslav Opinion sees the Soviet intervention in Poland as a barrier against German expansion to the East and South-East."

The paper sees the Russian move as beneficial to the Balkan Slavs "of whom Russia has remained the natural protector."—Havas.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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