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Japan had most certainly made a red-hot enemy of the Reds of Russia last week, and European observers were inclined to think that intuitive Adolf Hitler had in this deal outsmarted the Imperial Government of the Son of Heaven. Japan already has bitten off in China all she can effectively chew, and only last week the Soviet Union finally completed their duplicate "behind the mountains'' strategic railway paralleling the Trans-Siberian and permitting Russia more effectively than ever before to fight Japan.
The more Red soldiers have to be flung over this line into the Far East, the better Adolf Hitler will be pleased. In Europe rumors that next spring is the time envisioned by Der Führer for a short, sharp drive to seize Leningrad began last week to take on some of the dignity of predictions. Nazi strategists, political as well as military, were said to feel that the greatest folly would be a German invasion a la Napoleon which would lose itself in vast Russia, but that internal Russian forces of disunion would overthrow the Bolshevik leaders once the Russian people knew Dictator Stalin had been unable to hold Leningrad. "The Cradle of the Communist Dictatorship." and such parts of the Baltic regions and the Ukraine as would fall to an even moderately successful German drive. A preliminary Nazi move, much mooted today in European military circles, would be to attempt to nip off the small, German-speaking western tip of Czechoslovakia "restoring it to the Fatherland."