A TEST.
The appeal made by the British Minister of Toreign Affairs to the Russian delegate at Geneva "to banish the thought that the members of the League were plotting against the Soviet," will test Soviet sincerity. Nobody in any country outside the ranks of the Communists for a moment credits the idea that any of the European Powers is planning war with Russia. In Britain, for example, the feeling against Avar in general has grown very strong; the community is staggering under a vast war debt; and any sensible man has only to look at a map to see the hopeless nature of a military, attack on Russia. Probably the rulers of Russia know all this quite well, but it suits them to depict their country as surrounded by a ring of foes, ready to pounce upon it. This imaginary danger is used all the time to strengthen the Communist cause and to justify the arming of Russia. It will be interesting to read what M. Litvinoff says in reply to this sincere gesture of peace.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 118, 21 May 1931, Page 6
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