RUSSIA'S TWO VOICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1939, Page 5

RUSSIA'S TWO VOICES

SOVIET AND COMINTERN

Germany Attacked In Manifesto But Not

By

Molotov

INDICATION OF DOUBTFUL ATTACHMENT

EMPHASIS ON NEUTRALITY NOTED

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, November 7 (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.)

The view expressed in authoritative quarters in Loudon is that tiie speech of M. .Molotov and the Comintern manifesto do not represent any new departure.. There is a disinclination to attach much importance to them. The emphasis on neutrality is. however, noted. Al. Molotov’s speech held out. little hope of more active intervention on the German side. The fact that Germany is attacked in the manifesto and not in the speech is an- interesting manifestation of the new official pro-German attitude of the Soviet, which has never been precisely reproduced in the emanations of the Comintern designed for consumption in countries abroad other than Germany. • The Comintern has throughout, continued Io attack Fascism in general. The Comintern and the Soviet Government are, however, both equally under AL. Stalin’s control and the distinction apparent between the official Soviet and the Comintern attitudes suggests that the professed solidarity with Germany does not go very deep.