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LONDON. Feb. 14 - (A?) --!ri~ taln today denied Russian charges that aha had a secret anti-soviet "deal" with Hitler in 193B.

A Foreign Office spokesman termed the Soviet charge "quite obviously unfounded." He said it

‘hardly required a denial.

That constituted the oentral theme oi Britain's answer to Rus- sia's assertion that captured Ger- man documents showed the exist~ ‘cnre oi a prp-uiar Anglo-French policy aimed at directing Hitlerite aggression eastward against Rus- s a.

A statement issued Wednesday night by the Soviet information Bureau said Britain and France connived in letting Germany take over Czechoslovakia. and Austria. Russia accused Britain and France oi entering into virtual non-ag- greslon agreements with Iilitier.

The Foreign Office spokesman tutlny did not deny the authen- ticity of the documents themselves.

l He would only say, after an in- lizial stirvcy. that "we are not in a. lposiilull lo say that we can verily |llmln all." l

He observed that some of tnc documents were "so colorless that no one would want to go to tno trouble oi inventing them."

The Russian charges followed

‘the publication by the United states State Department Jon. 21 lui documents outlining pro-war ‘soviet-German agreements inc-inu- ' ing one on the partition oi Pu- land.

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(Dy J. M. Babette. Jr-l Anoehtsd Irena News Analyst)

Russia. trying tn» explain away the pra~war deals she made with Adolf Hitler. is resorting tn a lot of argument and mighty little documentation. ‘

The story she tells is an old one. She tries to infer that France and Britain made what amounted to a non-aggression pact with Germany by permitting the lt- tacks on Austria and Czecho- slovakia.

Just as the United States case is weakened by failure tn take cognizance oi the European sit- uation which was the background of Russia's actions. so did- the Russians fail to admit that the actions of France and Britain were the result oi helplessness.

But the Russians can't show that the Western Powers were bought off with little presen‘ like Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia. Bessarabla. hall’ of "Poland, thl right. to be aggressive against Tur- key and iron without German in- terference. and so on.

"Fhcy cant document their argu- ment that France and Britain were cizging Germany on against Rus- sia. Certainly, if Hitler was go- ing to make war. the Western Powers preferred to have him do so in the east. But there's a lot oi difference between that and act- ual encouragement.

As a matter oi fact, constant concessions were being made with the idea that almost anything was better than war. Czechoslovakia was sacrificed for that reason. Britain's belated pact with Poland was an effort to frighten Hitler out oi his war plans. Britain cer- tainly didn't say "O.K., if you must steal Poland, we'll take half for not. opposing you." They said. “we'll fight you.”

There was some justification for the wrong acts committed 0y both sides, but Russia approached the problem in an entirely un- moral atmosphere. she was will- ing to see Germany fight in the west, especiqliy 1r it produced booty for her. There is not the slightest evidence that Franc? and Britain would ever have made any deal with the knowledge that it would immediately unleash Hitler on any front.

The whole argument is, oi course, academic. It can't help anybody except the war-Quill- dodging Germans. Everybody miss- ecl the boat in dealing with the donble-crossin! Hull?’- Rum“ helped him until he began to ln- terfere in the sphere which he had promised her. especially lu Bulgaria, where Moscow expecten a. free hand in its drive to the Dardanelles. When Russia bucked him, Hitler attacked. The Western Powers were on the delellilvi from the beginning. The eastern war was far more oi‘ a straight power conflict.

But the big question, today .s less concerned with who started the Second World War than who is likely to start the third wottl war. The preliminary situation ts much the same. Russia, like Ger’ many, is reaching out for control of areas on which she has no moral claim and which it is fear- ed she tvill mo ilize for aggressive warfare. The ome base of the war of nerves has shifted 1mm Rome and Berlin to Moscow. The fifth columns are far more wide spread and better 011M119‘! m“ 1o years ago. If the cold war turns hot, thcre will be no slightest ques- tion of where the blame lies.

Winnipeg Needs 9,500 New Homes

(By The Canadian Press)

WLNNIPBG. Feb. l4 -House- seeking Winnipeggers had thv housing shortage pointed up anew tonight in the light. of a report that almost '10 per cent of the city‘s families ‘arc living in crowd- ed quarters.

Fred C. Austin. chief inspector of- the Sanitation and Housing Division oi the Health Depart- ment, quoted the figure in his annual housing survey report to the civic health committee. He estimated the minimum need o! now housing unite to meet satis- factory health and sanitation standards at almost 9.500.

The chief inspector said that although the city now had a pop- ulation of only about 20,000 more than in 1939, he could-recall "that. as far back as 2'1 years llo there were oases vrhera two and three families were oocupylnl quarters where only one family should have been living." l-ie added that it was an “accumulation of all these things that has made the» situa-t- ion difficult hare."

Winnipeg, with a population at 284.201 as oi last June, bmeﬂttad slightly by the building o! 1M5 new dwelling units in i047. the report said. At the end of the year. there were d’! vacant houses. of which as were being held vu- ant for sale.

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