London, June 13.
Care taken to give publicity to a large concentration of German mil't-ary power on the Soviet frontier, relations.
If the latter were primarily intended, Hitler in accordance with his customary tactics, would have pounce ed without warning, the paper continues.
"But this concentration in force will, in one respect, it more embarrassing for Moscow to submit to far-reaching Nazi demands for any conspicuous concession accorded under so Obvious a threat of force will be a confession of weakness, If, on the other hand, M. Stalin decides io call Hitler's bluff, may not that bluff turn into an extremely dangerous reality? In fact, it is a highly dangerous game of bluff and counter-bluff which is-now being played between two countries both desirous lot avoiding war but determined, one fo extort, the other to refuse as much as ever it dares without pro-yoking hostilities. It is a situation in which the guns some times go off without either side having really intended it."
After remarking that it has been clear for some time that no diplomatic action taken by the British Government will deflect the Soviet authorities in their present somewhat narrow interpretations of Soviet interests, "The Times," while admitting that it is important that Great Britain should be represented in Moscow by an envoy of ability and distinction, suggests that Sir Stafford Cripps is more urgently needed at home to stréngthen the quality of Labour Party re~ Trezentation in the supreme councils the nation—Reuter.
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