The Archive · 1939

Delay Welcomed By Totalitarians

Italian Press Scornful Of Bargaining Going on With Soviet Russia SPECIAL TO THE "N.CDN."

Rome, June 1, The alleged. "organic insufficiency and entangled conflicts of the Democratic Bloc" are mentioned by Signor Virginia Gayda, writing in the "Giornale d'Italia" today.

"This," he declared, "is not the spirit which will give birth to true and solid armed pacts."

Bargaining over the preparation of an alliance in which everyone wants to take without giving foredooms such bargaining to failure, he states.

The "Tribuna" states that the fundamental note is one of reciprocal mistrust, "Russia and the Western Powers," the journal declares, "will never be able to conclude anything remotely Reuter. resembling the Axis Steel Pact.

Berlin Expects "Bickerings"

Berlin, June 1.

Following. the speech of M. Molotov, President of the Soviet Council' of Commissars, and concurrently Foreign Commissar, in the Soviet Parliament yesterday, the German press apparently has abandoned the idea that the British, French and)Soyiet negotiations may break down, They expr the belief, however, that the "hi rings between the would-be alban partners" will last for a long time M. Molotov's reference to German-Russian trade relations is. ignored by the German (press, circles decline-t0 comment upon it, The "Hamburger Fremdenblatt" states that M. Molotov has been "manceuvres by the encirclers" into a position where he can demand his own terms, y "Der Angriff" remarks that a "fresh spell of frost" has come from Moscow, and compares the "artful tricks of the encircters" with. the "constructive peace policy exemplified by the German-Danish Non-Aggression Pact."

The "Lokal Anzeiger" states that London is "bitterly disappointed."

A spokesman for the Foreign Office said he failed to see in M. Molotov's speech anything which radically changed the situation—Reuter.

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