THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G. MAYNARD, Manager.
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Soviets Losing
Prestige Europe
Did Not Fight
Russia’s Failure To Go To War
With Japan Is Regarded As
A Sign of Weakness
SITUATION IN SPAIN CITED
Inability of Loyalists To Win
With Moscow’s Help Also
Viewed As A Fault
LONDON, October— At the
meeting which Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden attended upon his
return from Geneva one comment
of his is said to have attracted the
attention of his colleagues. The
Secretary mentioned the loss of
prestige suffered by Russia.
Now this lowering of the auth
ority of Russia, in the Assembly
of the League of Nations, and in
Europe generally, can be explain
ed. It is due to the failure of the
Russian government to react im
mediately against the Japanese
invasion of China.
On the occasion of the visit of
Soviet Commissar Maxim Litvin
off to Washington a couple of
years ago, the Russians spoke
firmly of their decision to defeat
the imperialism of Japan. They
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exposed in detail the steps taken
i to create on the Pacific coast a
great modern army, lavishly sup
1 plied with modern equipment and
led by experienced chiefs.
The impression was then creat
ed in the world that at the slight
est move of Japan.intended to
extend the area of the latter’s
conquest in China, hundreds of
Russian planes would go up to
bomb Tokyo and other Japanese
towns out of existence.
Holds Warlike Action Needed
The Russians were on guard. To
day we see that the watchman
has been asleep. Japan has invad
ed China and the Russians have
not moved. For we cannot con
sider speeches at Geneva as a
good substitute for the warlike
action needed in Asia.
What has happened? We have
known for some time that, for
reasons of internal politics, the
Russian army in the Far East
has been losing its power to
strike. Its chiefs seem to have
been unable to maintain in good
order the splendid material fur
nished them at so high a cost.
It is reported that hundreds of
planes have been left exposed to
the rigors of the Siberian win
ter practically without protection.
Strategical roads and railways
are also said to have been allow
ed to fall into disrepair. The
whole military machine appears
to have lost efficiency and driv
ing power. That information ap
pears to be true. Anyhow, the
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Japanese relied upon it.
The important fact is that the
Japanese advance in China and
the fall of Russian prestige in
' Europe are related. This matter
will have a lasting influence up
on the state of international re
• lations on the Continent, and es
pecially so in the case of the Fran
■ co-Russian alliance. Russia, in
1 capable of action in the Far East,
i becomes supect of weakness in
Europe and Mr. Litvinoff should
know by now how precarious the
hold of Moscow is on European
politics.
“Purge” in Russia Linked
The Russians may have a good
excuse for not interfering in the
, Chinese situation just now. They
may say, for example, that their
object is to let the Japanese be
come entangled in China before
the Russian army appears on the
scene, ready to strike a decisive
blow. Yet the impression in Eur
ope is that Joseph Stalin’s ‘pur
ge’ and incompetence all around
have contributed to diminish the
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offensive value of the army. And |
whatever the reason, the fact re-j
mains that, confronted with Jap-|
anese aggression, Russia has not |
moved.
The Franco-Russian alliance in
the last years has been at the
bottom of a great deal of troub
le in Europe. On one hand it fur
nished Germany with a final pre
text for breaking the peace treaty,
and, on the other, it led to an in-!
crease of the socialdisorder in1
Spain, and in western Euripe
generally.
As long as the Russian army,
loomed as a powerful factor in !
the lining up of forces against j
German militarism, such draw- t
backs could be glossed over. If, ;
however, it is true that the Rus
sian army is a facade merely,
people in London and in Paris
too, will be inclined no longer to
forgive Mr. Litvinoff’s meddling
with international affairs.
As far as Great Britain is con
cerned Russian prestige has been
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APPROPRIATE ACTION' toward the Japanese govern
ment was promised by British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden
after a Nir.ponese aviator had shot down Britain's ambassador to
China as he motored from Nanking to Shanghai. A threatened naval
h’oekade further heightened the crisis.
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1st day of November. 1937.
Herbert Greenberg
Administrator of the Estate of
Sol L. Lewis, deceased.
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