GESTURE TO LONDON
ITALIAN FRIENDSHIP
WITHDRAWAL FROM GRfeEK
FRONTIER
NO THREAT INTENDED
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, September 21. In view of the close relations between Greece and England, the decision announced by Italy to withdraw her forces from the border of Greece and Albania is the equivalent iof a friendly gesture to London, I States the Rome correspondent of the "New York Times" in a radiotelephone report. Italy had been expected automatically to invade Greece if she entered the war on "Germany's side, and now she has made it clear that she does not intend to carry out that threat Her prime consideration in the Balkans is to maintain peace and the territorial status quo, which are worth nothing if both are menaced by Germany and Russia. It is riot pleasing to Italian statesmen to see Russia entering the Balkans. It is impossible to understand the general Italian opinion towards the war, however, states the correspondent, without realising that it is based on a complete, honest inability to understand the Anglo-Saxon point of view. To all but one in a thousand a world war in order to destroy Hitlerism is "a monstrous aberration," as "La Tribuna" puts it. :
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 72, 22 September 1939, Page 7
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199GESTURE TO LONDON Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 72, 22 September 1939, Page 7
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