London, Oct, 28.
marizing the position of the war, and offer a diversity of weekly journals devote' considerable space to sum-speculations as to the future course of hostilities. The "Spectator says: "A week ago, confident predictions came from Berlin of the impending visit to Germany of M. Viacheslav Molotov, Soviet Foreign Commissar, and Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian. Foreign Minister, for conversations which would result in the issue of a tripartite declaration of first moment.
So far, these visits have not been paid and the momentous declaration has not materialized, nor is there the least possibility that it will.
3 "The intentions of Moscow and Rome, as proclaimed from Berlin, are now hardly identical with the intentions of the respective Governments, as shown by Italian and Russian action—or, in this case, inaction. Herr Hitler, who initiated the war," the continues, "has already lost the initiative in it. He had lost all his potential allies, with the doubtful, but admittedly important exception of Russia.
Neither his submarine nor his aerial attacks have produced the results calculated to dismay us, or gratify him.
"The immense efforts for which the British Dominions are preparing have to make themselves of the will open access to alr tible supplies of munitions.
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