MODEST CLAIM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1939, Page 6

MODEST CLAIM

ONLY SOVIET KEEPING PEACE ANOTHER MOLOTOV ORATION. ATTACK ON ALLIES AND UNITED STATES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) MOSCOW. November G. M. Molotov, speaking on the occasion of the celebration of the twenty-second anniversary of the revolution, reaffirmed Soviet neutrality. He said: “No effort to draw Russia into the war can succeed,” and added that the war was constantly spreading. He accused England and France of seeking to extend their influence to the Balkans and Scandinavia for the purpose of increasing their own colonial possessions. M. Molotov hinted that the passage of the United States Neutrality Bill was a screen for eventual participation by the United States in the war and remarked: “Only the Soviet Union is consistently keeping the peace.”

ONLY A MASK MOLOTOV ON NEUTRALITY ACT. WORDY COMMUNIST MANIFESTO. (Received This Day. 11.40 a.m.) MOSCOW, November 6. M Molotov accused the United States of “warming its hands near the fire of war.” The Neutrality Act, he said, was only a mask with which to cover the struggle for profit. The collapse of internal conditions in bourgeois countries forced them to seek a way out of the situation in foreign adventures, the seizure and spoliation of foreign lands and colonies and a new redivision of the world oy war. After asserting that there was a danger of ihe European and Asiatic wars expanding into world-wide conflicts, M Molotov contrasted this “imperialistic policy" with the Soviet Union's" consequent policy" of peace, adding that the power and authority of the Soviet Union were becoming more and more evident. The annexation of East Poland, he said, was one of the greatest successes of the Soviet Union's foreign policy. The Soviet Union would remain faithful to the policy of peace and proletarian internationalism. Capitalists and their Socialist assistants could not be expected to renounce war voluntarily. The Soviet desired to bring the war to an early end. Tire growth of our inner strength and international authority is a sacred duty. The Soviet Union remains unshakeable. It has increased its territory to become still more terrifying to its enemies.

A Communist official manifesto, in commemoration of the anniversary of the revolution, hails the Russo-Ger-man pact as preventing warmongers involving in war Russia and the Danubian and Balkan States. It omits all reference to Fascism, though it is stated that Germany, besides England and France is fighting for world hegemony. The customary expression of sympathy for China and condemnation of “Japanese plunderers" are absent. The World’s workers are urged to fight against imperialist war and adhere to the cause of proletarian internationalism.

The manifesto adds that the American bourgeoisie is enriching itself under’ a pharasaical mask of neutrality, enabling munition kings to reap huge profits. The Italian bourgeoisie awaits a propitious moment to hurl itself against the loser and claim a share of the victor's spoils. The manifesto demands the organisation of a new. united front against war, restricted exclusively to workers and not supported by Socialists and bourgeoisie.

SUSPENDED MEANTIME

RUSSO-FINNISH TALKS. LONDON. November 6. The British Associated Press Moscow correspondent reports that the Russo-Finnish negotiations will probably be suspended during the three-day celebration of the twenty-second anniversary of the Red Revolution commencing today.

The Stockholm correspondent of the Times says the entire press rebuts the Moscow journal Pravda's charges concerning Sweden’s attitude towards the Finnish problem. It declares Swedish politicians will not take orders from their “Western masters” or anyone else.

Daventry reports that Finland has cancelled the leave of all reservists. Tomorrow a censorship will be imposed on all telephone and telegraphic communications.