RUSSIA AND THE WORLD

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21051, 30 December 1933, Page 11

RUSSIA AND THE WORLD

4. Improved Relations RECOGNITION JBY UNITED STATES (t'Sl'J P'D PHESS A •J ELKUUAWI COPYiUGHT.) (Received De.cember 29, 9.25 p.m.) MOSCOW, December 28. "Soviet relations with England at present are satisfactory, in spite of the Metropolitan Vickers affair," declared M. V. M. Molotov (President) at the opening of the Union Council of People's Commissars. He added that trade negotiations were proceeding normally. He contrasted Russia's position with the principal powers, especially the improved relations with France and Poland, with the threat in the present attitude of Germany and Japan, and paid a tribute to the League of Nations, adding that it proved a brake to their warlike intentions. He declared that Japan feared the co-operation of the Soviet. the United States, and China in the Far East, describing the recognition of the Soviet by the United t States as an outstanding event. He I referred, amid applause, to M. Maxim Litvinoff's part therein. Eight hundred delegates were prej sent. M. I. V. Stalin spoke from the j platform, on which a huge white bust, of Lenin, embowered with greenery, dominated the scene. The guests included diplomats and crowds of shock workers.from Moscow factories.