ENGLAND AND RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2955, 15 December 1916, Page 28

ENGLAND AND RUSSIA

EXPRESSED RUSSIAN AMBITIONS

The famous Russian economic professor, Migulin, makes the following suggestive remarks in the "Nowy Economist" :—

"Russia must secure corresponding material compensations for the losses which she has incurred. It is time to give up finally her quixotic policy. Russia has lost enough power and Kood for foreign interests and for foreign freedom. There is still a great deal too much talk to-day about the liberation of suppressed nationalities as the chief object. _ One ought not to forget that in previous times this duty has always been fulfilled at the cost of enslaving the Russian, peoples themselves. Nor ought we to forget that some of those liberated nationalitiesAustria, Prussia, Bulgaria—are to-day conducting a war against us, and that another "liberated" people—Greece— is observing a hostile neutrality. But where can Russia obtain corresponding compensations? Above all, not on the Western frontier. Russia must have an outlot to free southern waters. Sho must secure the freedom of the Dardanelles, and an access to the Mediterranean, not only by sea but by land. "We must como to an arrangement with Great Britain to have an outlet to the Persian. Gulf. England and Russia must act together in Asia as in Europe. There must be no more talk of any "area of conflict" between the two ' countries. Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Northern Persia, and the neutral zono of Persia must be ceded to Russia. When Russia occupies the Dardanelles, Alexandretta, and the Persian . Gulf she , will protect for England'the'way to India and to Egypt, instead of threatening it.