Washington, Nov. 6.
Officially silent on the Rome anti-Communist pact, State Department officers privately expressed the fear that the concordat would only serve to aggravate world tension.
It represented, they believed, a further consolidation of the principal Fascist and Fascist-inclined governments against the world's democracies, and was likely to raise further dif-culties for the Brussels Conference by stiffening Japan's attitude toward it.
Oficials declined to comment on the suggestion raised in some American circles that the concordat might be used in a common Italo-German effort to cultivate Fascism in Latin America, The United States Government, however, has long been aware of efforts from Europe to promote Fascist sympathies in Central and South America—United Press.
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