NO TRADE WITH SOVIET

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 72, 28 March 1921, Page 5

NO TRADE WITH SOVIET

» AMERICA STANDS FIRM. MEW BASIS NEEDED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copj-right.) WASHINGTON, March 27. The State Department has notified the Russian Soviet Government that the I'nited States views sympathetically and with concern the plight of the Russian people, and desires to aid by every appropriate means the promotion of proper opportunities whereby commerce can be established on . a sound basis. It is manifest to the l.'nited States Government in the existing circumstances there is no assurance for the development of trade, nor as long as the present causes of impoverishment continue. It is only in the productivity of Russia that there is any hope for the Russian people. It is idle to expect tbe resumption of trade until an economic basis of production is 'securely established, including the recognition of private property, the sanctity of contracts, ami the right of free labour. Until the I'nited States receives convincing evidence that such rights nre guaranteed, it is unable to perceive any proper basis for considering trade relations.— (A. and N.Z. (able.) CONSOLIDATING THE SOVIET. FRENCH ATTACK ON LLOYD GEORGE. PARIS. March 27. The London correspondent of the "Matin" emphasises the inconsistencies of Mr. Lloyd George's temperament and contrasts his attacks on the Labour party in Britain and his trade agreement with Russia, "whereby," says the correspondent, "he helps to consolidate the Soviet Government, which subsidises the British Labour movement." The correspondent interviewed two of Mr. Lloyd George's secretaries, who contended that his inconsistencies really demonstrated Mr. Lloyd George's adaptability and his "supple Welsh genius." One secretary added: "Mr. Lloyd George never reads a book, but he is not the only Entente leader who knows everything without having learned anything." (A. and NX Cable.)

LENIN'S CYNICISM. CONCESSION AND DISSENSION. PARTS, March 27. Lenin, replying to protests in Russian Bolshevik newspapers, that his system of industrial concessions to foreign capitalists can only strengthen the capitalist regime, which Bolshevism seeks to destroy, points out that tbe ten years' concession in Kamchatka, Siberia, granted to American capitalists provides economic advantages for Russia, and creates dissension between the United States and Japan, "thereby revenging us on .Tanan. who has wrested from Russia a larjre stretch of territory by armed force."—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)