Washington, June 5.
The continued non-belligerency of Italy is taken as an indication that the military prospects for the Allies are more immediately hopeful, than have recently appeared. Comment on Il Duce in newspapers has grown increasingly bitter in recent weeks.
President Roosevelt is being given some of the credit for Italy's failure to announce her entry into the war yesterday.
Diplomatic circles believe that the President's correspondence with Rome, which began a few weeks ago, took the Mne that any change in Ttaly's status would alter the balance of non-belligerency, and in that event the United States might be influenced to bear more heavily towards the Allies, Tt is believed that the question of Ttalian immigration to the United States was also raised.—Reuter Atlantic Sailings Continue British and French are as a cover for ambitions in the in Yugoslavia, whose political posi tion was improved after the conclusion of a trade pa th the Soviet said yesterday.
yugoslavia is fully aware of the Italian danger," the newspaper added. "The situation in the Mediterranean may be used as a pretext for the Italian occupation of the Yugoslav coast. like other Balkan sted in the preservation of neutrality and peace.
"The German offensive westward has removed or deferred the possibility of Anglo-French infringement of Balkan neutral lion threatens—United Press.
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