Feeding the Jap Bulldog.

Apparently the Russian Soviet does not want a war on two fronts. Its European front is more important than its foothold on the distant and not always ice-free Pacific. So its Foreign Minister suggests a sale of railway interests to Manchukuo or Japan. The sale terms may be rejected, but the overture seems to prove that the Soviet values not the old Tsaristic expansion eastward. Perhaps the idea is that when Japan's appetite is glutted with Chinese and Russian Far Eastern territory, the Soviet's rear will be safe. A rapidly changing Europe has perils enough for Russia, without a Japanese conflict. Not only Poland, but the German sphinx, must cause Moscow a lot of thought, and it must be hard for Russians to swallow whole the reported statement of the Nazi journal “Angriff” that the alleged German Russian friendship will never be affected by “Germany's war on Communism.” But they see a star in the West. The Roosevelt semi-recognition of the Soviet is one of the significant events of recent days.