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Show GENOA CONFAB Comptroller of Currency Sees in Conference Opportunity Op-portunity for West NITW YORK. Feb 18 (By International Inter-national News Service.) The Qenoa e-conomlc conference offers the world one of a lessening number of opportunities oppor-tunities to save itself from the menace men-ace of bolshevism and to Hecure to western institutions their np upon civilization as against the- Impending terror of eastern debasement. Com i troller of the Currency D. R Crissin- I ycr tonight told the New York chapter of the American llnstltute of Bank- I ing. American financiers arc hopetul that America will Join other powers around the Genoa conference table, Crlsslnger said, and declared that oven as America led in political refot ma- I tlon so must jho lead In economic stabilization of the nations. "American financial opinion should be prepared for the presentation of the proposals looking to this end. In the not distant future, whether at Genoa or at some :ml later interna- I tional conference," Crlsslnger de- elat ed Soundln.i-- the alarm for the Am- r- le.ill pcitph- In sense t't. ..I tlv spread of Bolshevism and warning them th.u tne u..v.o ;h 1 ows of coming events even now are j cast upon western world. Crlsslnger I said: "We will do well to recognize that i cxtremelv vicious elements have hi en introduced Into the world which seek the destruction of our whole present scheme of social organization Bol- j shistn, after it had pained the up-i up-i per hand in Russia, devot-d Itself ' ' a long time to effort at breaking down j the sot-lal and political system of! ! western Europe It failed there, but Its failure has not by any means re- ! I moved Its menace." |