The Archive · 1937

Moscow Press Fears

Moscow, Oct. 31.

Italy will attempt to nullify the efforts of the Nine-Power Conference, the world was warned to-day by the Soviet press.

"Italy, with the help of her asso-clates and counting on the toleration of the bourgeois democratic Powers, undoubtedly will try to turn the conference into a new edition of the Non-Intervention Committee," said the "Pravda."

"There is at present no reason to expect the Brussels edition to prove any better than the London session, which only served the aggressors' aims," wrote the "Izvestia." "While bourgeois governments do not decide to take practical action against mili tary aggression, conferences will present only different varieties of fruitless, partly harmful, talks."

President Roosevelt's approach was described by the "Izvestia" as "more realistic" but "mutual conversation

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