The political and dlplomatic preliminary work is to
provide the formulas
 
               a. In Turkey;
               b. In Soviet Russia
 
that are needed to favor the final positions for attack, to gain time, and to maintain the treaty 
 
rights under the tripartite past and the Russo-Turkish and Russo-Japanese
 
treaties of neutrality..
 
     The negotiations with Sweden and Finland for the
 
purpose of' bringing them into the planned offensive
 
action in the Baltic, as far as St. Petersburg, are being accelerated.
 
                    II.
                    1.
       The liquidation of Soviet Russia is considered a neccessity
 
a. from the standpoint of the tnternal economic situation and
 
b. from that of the coming military problems in the west
 
     The losses that will arise from the destructiveness of a campaign in the east are not
estimated very high; they would be made up for at once by the direct application of the German
military and administrative mechanism to grain and feeding stuffs, large and small aninals,
wood, coal, and mineral deposits, in particular petroleum