MACDONALD'S SUPPORT
EUROPE IMPRESSED
ANGLO-RUSSIAN 'RIVALRY
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) PARIS, sth March.
The support given by Mr. Ramsay •MaeDonald, Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons, to Sir Austen Chamberlain's Note to the Soviet has created a deep impression. Several' newspapers declare that the crux of the question is the old Anglo-Russian rivalry in. the Far East, which is described by one writer as a struggle between a whale and an elephant, but the elephant has at present become an army of ants, burrowing everything secretly, while the whale is no longer able to summon the assistance of the Japanese dragon owing to Britain's abandonment of the Japanese alliance in order to please the United States, though the necessity for an Anglo-Japanese alliance is becoming daily more plain. The Press does not expect that Britain will break off relations with Russia till other European Powers are prepared to follow her example. The impudent tone of the Soviet's reply is considered to be due to the Bolshevik leaders' desire to distract attention from the unsatisfactory economic position of Russia.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 55, 7 March 1927, Page 11
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180MACDONALD'S SUPPORT Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 55, 7 March 1927, Page 11
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