The title of the agreement is but the cover of the dish, deciares the Manchester Guardian" to-day in a leading article on Italy's adherence to the anti-Communist pact.
"Although Japan, genuinely, and Germany, in a lesser degree, fear Communism," the newspaper says, "Italy does not. Even Japan finds Communism a convenient bogey. Her claim of fighting Communism in China is sheer nonsense, for no government has ever fought Communists more vigorously than Gen, Chiang Kai-shek's Government. In truth, this so-called anti-Communist pact is a working agreement between three warlike states whose only common concern is to get what they can and where they can.
"Great Britain's policy recently has been based on the principle that the division of the world into two blocks s not inevitable, but the question must now be asked whether such efforts are any longer profitable, "Italy, by signing the met, has taken her position on the other side. She is not bound to fight on the side of Germany and Japan, but she is bound to support them in diplomacy ich may lead to war. moreover, if the pact is not so much an agreement against Communism as an agreement for gain the fact must be faced that the tact is directed far less against Russia than against Britain and France, the source of gain."—Reuter.
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