NEUTRALITY OF RUSSIA

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20955, 7 November 1939, Page 7

NEUTRALITY OF RUSSIA

ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE ALLIES WILL NOT BE DRAWN INTO WAR “ONLY SOVIET UNION .KEEPING PEACE” (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Nov. 7, 11.45 a.m.) MOSCOW, Nov. 6 M. Molotoff, in a speech on the occasion of the celebration of the twenty-second anniversary of the revolution, reaffirmed Soviet neutrality. He said that no effort to draw Russia into the war could succeed. He added that the war was constantly spreading, and 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. Molotoff hinted that the passage of the United States Neutrality Bill was to screen eventual participation by the United States in the war. Only the Soviet Union was consistently keeping peace. M. Molotoff accused the United States of “warming its hands near the fire of war.” The Neutrality Act was only a mask with which to cover a struggle for profit. The collapse of internal conditions in the burgeois countries had forced them to seek a way out of the situation in foreign adventures, the seizure and spoliation of foreign lands and colonies, and new redivisions of the w r orld by war.