The Russian delegation to the Preparatory Disarmament Confer-fence has issued a long addendum to Comrade Litvinoff's speech at the meeting yesterday, declaring that]
useless to enter into the question of responsibility for the late] War, which was due to competition among great capitalist States forced to maintain their Colonial positions and markets for a greatly increased output, The statement declares that the last naval disarmament conference! was fraught with danger owing to the strained relations between the participants: therefore the fear fan outbreak of a gigantic war amply justified—Reuter.
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