TOWARD WAR
ALL COUNTRIES INVOLVED. OUTSPOKEN RUSSIAN COMMENT. SOVIET THE PRINCIPAL CAUSE. (United Press Association—Copyright). (Received 'Jhis Ray, 11.10 a.m.) ' MOSCOW, January 28. In a five hours’ speech at tho opening of the Communist Congress, M t Stalin said that all countries were obviously moving toward war, and the most dangerous possible cause of war was the effort to crush tho Soviet Union, because the Russians would fight to the death, while the proletarians of the attacking Power would stage a revolution in the rear of the lines. “They will not feel like poking their pig’s snout into our Soviet garden,” he declared. BRITAIN HOLDS SOLUTION. FIRM POLICY ESSENTIAL. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, January 28. Mr Wickham Steed, after a tour of the Continent has sent a letter to the “Sunday Times.” in which, ho says: “Britain holds the key to the international situation. Consolidation of peace depends upon her policy ini the next few days. /•'We are drifting, probably to inevitable war, gnd a firm, unequivocal, British policy would be the rallying point for peace.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 92, 29 January 1934, Page 5
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178TOWARD WAR Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 92, 29 January 1934, Page 5
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