The signing of a fifteen-year treaty of alliance between Lithuania, and the Soviet is the most significant occurrence which has taken place since Herr Hitler surrendered the German position in eastern Europe in exchange for the nonaggression pact between himself, and Moscow. Such an alliance is held to be definitely against Germany's interests, and in the sense that it does in fact strengthen Russia's position on the Baltic, that view is correct. Roughly speaking, without actually wiping out the States of Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Russia has succeeded in obtaining command of the coast of the Baltic from Petrograd down to the boundaries of East Prussia, and the possibility that Herr Hitler may have to loosen his hold Memel is one which is not lightly to be disregarded. It is probable that M. Stalin will be able to obtain some concessions from Finland, which would give him complete control also of the approach to Petrograd, and place
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.