The Soviet Government's action in reducing the age for compulsory military service and thereby increas-{ing Russia's potential military strength by about one million men, is another pointer towards the tension" that foxists in" Europe. Newspapers Moscow with éMiciat or semi-ofelal standing have openly declared that the Fascist mutiny in Spain is a result of @ plot engineered by Germany and Italy. and that the Fascist rebels have been promised support from those countries. "Pravda" declares that a Fascist Spain would be 'a weapon in German hands directed against France, and a tool in Italian hands that could be used to harass] Britain, "Pravda's" implication is jlous—that the nations of Europe are jockeying for positions in the next war. The other side of the pic+ ture is painted by an Amsterdam newspaper, which charges the Third ternational with the whole responsibility for events in Spain, and al-Teges that communist attempts are being made to undermine the loyalty ary grounding in logic—mighit induce Sympathy for the police, who are not concerned to harass motor-ear ownfers but rather are anxious to devise trafic rules which will meet with the ral approval of the community.
necessary, offer constructive sugges-jive the Tules 9 chance, and, where tions for' the removal of grievances: should they. materialize—that seems fo be a sound plan and to have the merit of tolerating even the harmless necessary motorist.
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