RUSSIA AND BRITAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 283, 30 November 1933, Page 7

RUSSIA AND BRITAIN.

BENNETT'S "BULLYING" WAYS,

LONDON, November 24. How much longer is Mr.. R. B. Bennett, Canadian Prime Minister, going to reduce the British Government to the same frozen passivity as Larw-ood reduced the Australian batsmen? asks the "NewsChronicle" in drawing attention to the protracted Anglo-Soviet trade negotiations. The paper says tliat Mr. Bennett, with his dictatorial demand that Canada shall be first, is dominating British policy in an important economic foreign field. He bullied and bamboozled the British delegates at the Ottawa Conference into placing an embargo against goods cheapened by State action. Now, while Britain is dallying, President Roosevelt lias done in spectacular fashion in November what Britain might have achieved without fuss in July, enabling the strengthening of RussoAmerican political and cultural relations and belittling British influence in Russia and the Far East, besides preventing British trade everywhere. Cynical competitors are profiting by Britain's hypocritical pretence that | Russia is still a moral leper, too loatli- ' some to sell herrings to. '