Rome, Nov, 19.
The Axis was striving to establish a solid European-Asiatic bloc, whose sphere of influence would extend from Algeciras, Spain, to Tokyo, Sig. Giovanni Ansaldo, said yesterday in the "Leghorn Telegrafo," the newspaper of the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, "An Anglo-American bloc already has been established, wherein England will be furnished with armed forces and supplies from the United States," said Sig. Ansaldo.
"President Roosevelt has mobilized United States war industries in order to begin to send large scale supplies to England in June, 1941, in line with the Anglo-American bloc," he continued, "Mussolini and Hitler have been working on a plan to extend the Axis bloc from Algeciras to Tokyo, and some of the powers included in this territory will collaborate militarily with the Axis against England, "Outline In Progress"
"The outline of a great political plan, which was decided in the Mussolini-Hitler meetings at the Brenner Pass and Florence, is now in full progress" Sig. Ansaldo claimed.
"M. Molotov's visit to Berlin constitutes an essential part of this plan, If we bear in mind that M, Molotov's visit to Berlin was followed by Sr. Ramon Suner's visit, and that contacts with the Vichy Government continued while M. Molotov was in Berlin, it is clear that the plan mentioned' is becoming more consistent, "Despite official reserve, it is easy to see the supreme goal which Axis diplomacy is arriving at gradually—a diplomatic system which joins to the Axis the active collaboration of all European states, and which develops good relations already existing between the Axis, Soviet Russia, and Japan, as well as better relations between the latter two,"
"An enormous European-Asiatic bloc will be created. Not all members of this bloc will be obliged to participate militarily, but all will have tight bonds with the Axis, In other words, from Algeciras to Tokyo all that which is organized and has importance will be included in this system, which can be called a system of collaboration of powers," which will have a direct interest in the disappearance of the British Empire.
"Against this system England can receive ald from only one power—the United States,"
Ansaldo concluded,—United Press,
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