Second Edition SOVIET COMPLAINT

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 68, 13 December 1939, Page 10

Second Edition SOVIET COMPLAINT

League Committee Held To Be “Packed” REPLY FROM MOSCOW AWAITED By Telegraph.— Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received December 13, 2 a.m.) GENEVA, December 12. A special committee is continuing the work of drafting a resolution in respect to Finland pending Russia’s reply to the League truce proposal. Soviet sources describe the committee as “packed,” declaring that only four of the 13 States represented on it have relations with Russia. If Russia does not reply, Britain and France are expected to supply Finland with war materials via Sweden. The Latin American States, which are most insistent that Russia should be expelled, have promised to supply the Finns with nitrates and beef. The general atmosphere of the discussions by the delegates to the Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva was described in a talk broadcast by Daventry last night. The commentator said that (lie delegates could be divided roughly into two groups, the exclusionists and the negotiators, and their attitude was governed largely by their -geographic position. Those who were far removed from war-ridden Europe were highly moral in their attitude, and those close to the belligerents were ready to snatch, at any straw for a compromise. The commentator summarized the general opinion in Genova as follows: (1) Germany wants Russia to walk out of the League or be expelled; (2) The Russian delegates are remaining at Geneva, but show no sign of walking out: (3) All omens point to a condemnation of the aggressor ami material aid to the victim possibly organized through the League: (4) behind all these looms the gigantic shadow of the United States of America. —By radio.