RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19666, 9 July 1929, Page 11

RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.

| ♦ MR HENDERSON'S SPEECH. RESENTED BY MOSCOW. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY BLBC7BIO TELEGHAFH —COPY2IOHT.) (Received July Bth, 7.15 p- m .) LONDON, July 8. The Riga correspondent of "The Times" says that the Foreign Secretary, Mr Arthur Henderson's statement on Anglo-Russian relations, has been received most unfavourably in the Moscow newspaper "Izvestia," which declares that Mr Henderson's optimism is misplaced, and discloses a pretended secret that Sir Austen Chamberlain several times discussed unofficially the resumption of relations on identically similar conditions to those now put forward by the Labour Government. "The Soviet refused them and is unlikely to budge at Mr Henderson's suggestion. Great Britain must resume relations unconditionally," the paper states. —'The Times" Cables. [ln the House on July oth speaking on the question of the resumption of diplomatic relations with Russia, Mr Henderson, stated that the Soviet Government received de jure recognition in 1924, and was still so recognised, but the rupture of 1927 had suspended the normal machinery of diplomatic relations which now required to be reestablished. The Dominions had been approached and their replies were awaited. Referring to the anti-British manifesto issued in March by the Third Communist International, Mr Henderson said the Government had made it clear that it would not tolerate Russian propaganda.]