COMMENT IN RUSSIA

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1927, Page 9

COMMENT IN RUSSIA

"IZVESTIA'S" VIEW

POLITICIANS' 'ABUSE

(United Press •Association.^-Copyright.} MOSCOW, 24th February. The full text of the British Note has been published. .....■'' ... •.•• ■-,;;

The "Izvestia," editorially,.-says :— "The Note misses its mark.'-'lt contains' no specific- charges which could justify either, its.-presentation ...0r... a threat of the abrogation of the trade Agreement or even a severance of ordinary diplomatic relations... The ma,in charges against the Soviet Government made during the past fer- months in. the Conservative Press, such as the alleged support by the Soviet Government of "the miners' strike and the alleged infringement by the Soviet Union of British interests in China, are not reflected in cho Note, which this timp does not repeat the accusations contained in the memorandum of the British. Government last summer. ' ' • . ME. CHURCHILL'S SPEECHES." - ; ."Regarding the charges against politicians of the Soviet Union in calling for a world revolution and against Bukharin and Voroshilov of-making statements abusing Britain, the Soviet Government has never given an uiukrrtr'ang to anybody to prevent Russian citizens, vhether private 0r... members of the Government, from voicing in ■speeches, their firm belief in the inevitable world revolution when.such utterances are made on Soviet territory. It may be as ;ed: "What does the British Government say about Mr...Churchill's speech in Rome," when"he~openly" called for the Over throw of . the*'; Sovie.f-ire-gime?" ''■..■:,".• -.--j-V:;?,'; "'

.The "Isvestia," citing extracts from speeches of Lord Birkenhead and Mr. .Churchill, proceeds: "It is the. Soviet Union that can speak of" systematic abuse by British politicians." > Pointing out what it calls the iirifoundedness and intolerable tone of the Note, the paper adds: "If the Note reflects a concession to the 'diehards, 3 this circumstance would explain its origin, but would not justify-the sense of -its pre■scntation." ''..'•■