London, -July 9.
CALL for Britain and the Soviet Union to strike together at Hitler "untiringly and without respite" was made by the former Foreign Commissar, M. Maxim Litvinoff, broadcasting last night from Moscow.
"Each blow struck now will be ten times as effective and will entail infinitely Jess expenditure and sacrifice than if it were delivered later," he declared.
Litvinoff added that the Soviet-German war was compelling Hitler to transfer more and more of his forces fromthe west to the east ''thus enabling the British people to enjoy a certain respite after twelve months of incessant bombing."
But it was already clear, he added, that Hitler was out of his reckoning "regarding the character of his blow against the Soviet Union.
Nazt' Germany's treacherous attack on the peaceful Soviet Union. in face of the non-aggression pact between the two countries, "confirmed by 'Hitler's ovn solemn' declarations, has furnished the world with fresh' and overwhelming evidence that no coun try, whatever its policy, can fect secure.s0 long as Nazism and Hitlerism exist, No agreement and no undertaking signed by Hitler and his henchmen, no promises or assurances fon their part, no declaration of neutrality, in fact no relation with them whialsoever can provide against sudden and provoked attack, and Peace that could be male would be protection against renewed attack at any time, Miller and War "Have we not learned from the actual writings and declarations of Hitler and his merry men that he considers himself above all concep: tion of peaceful ce-existence of na-international obligations and In his autobiography Hitler describes how he wilted and des paired during a decade of international peace. Without war he can point in. living, Fields soaked in blood. towns duced to smoking heaps of ashe, hunger, poverty and the tears of mothers and wives and disters—all these compose the clement in which Hiller feels happy and comfortable."
"The Soviet Government", Litvinoff continued, "was almost the fret {0 realise the danger fo the world of Nozi aggressiveness. appeal {ng to all nationg to curb it and oranize resistance' to it. This is not a moment to go into the question of why these repeated appeals of the Soviet Government did not yield the desired result. When a house is on fire the first necessity is to extinguish the flames, Why the fire was not prevented, and where fault can be looked into afterwards.
"Europe ig on fire and parts of other continents too. Over' dozen slates have lost their independence, their lands have been laid waste as if a host of locusts had passed over them, and their populations have been reduced to slavery. Who can doubt that the same fate awaits in the near future the few countries which are stiN dragging out wretched, crazy. independent existence under" the flusory cover of neutrality and pacts of non-aggression and friendship with Hitler,"
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