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Show Churchill Stirs Furore in Europe by Inviting Neutrals to Join Allies in War Upon Germany By IOVW T. KEEMUC I'nlted Frees Cable Editor The outspoken Winston Churchill, Britain's first lord of the admiralty, has caused something some-thing of a furore In Europe by his warning to neutrals that the war Is likely to spread and his Indirect Indi-rect Invitation to them to join the allies. The Immediate effect of Churchill's speech was to bring from the neutral press and spokesmen renewed expression of the determination of their countries coun-tries to stsy out of the war and to fight only If directly attacked. at-tacked. It brought expressions of In-dlgnatlon In-dlgnatlon In Italy, whose sense of dignity was offended by what was considered In Rom the Implication Im-plication that Italy, largest and most powerful of the neutrals, cannot defend herself without the aid of the allies. Germany naturally pounced on the ststement as evidence to the neutrals that Britain Is trying to drag them into war. A Britah government spokesman spokes-man disclaimed responsibility of the government for the speech, declaring that It should not be considered a statement of government gov-ernment policy, but was an expression ex-pression of personal Opinion by ChurchllL Comment was reserved In the Scandinavian countries, which are In the delicate position of wanting to aid Finland, but to void conflict with Xussit or Germany If possible. Cautious comment from tun to tuna In Swedish and Norwegian Norwe-gian papers and unofficial conversation con-versation give the Impression that the two countries are determined de-termined that Finland must not go under and bring the threat of Russian aggression to all Scandinavia. Scan-dinavia. Possibilities were rather openly open-ly discussed In the Swedish newspaper news-paper U pea la Nya Ttdningen, which said: "Will Finland be compelled to fight alone without the assistance of the big powers, as Poland dldT This Is the most vital problem which Swedish statesmen must face when studying the problem of aid for Finland." |