RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 118, 14 November 1929, Page 8

RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—ln "The Post" of 7th instant, Sir Kobert Stout waxes indignant at Soviet propaganda, and adds "that Russia is not very careful of the language used when dealing with- other nations." I suggest it is a case of the pot calling the kettle c o-" c °Psltler> for instance, the speeches ot bir W. Joynson-Hicks (now Lord Brentfoot), Lord Birkenhead, and • Sir Winston Churchill, even when they were members of the Cabinet. Also counterrevolutionary movements were supported by Great Britain and her Allies. When the last of the counter-revolutionary "brigands as Wells called them, was defeated, in his baggage were found papers signed, your humble servant, Winston Church-' ill, and also proof that the said humble servant had supplied his master with a ■large sum of the taxpayers' money. Previous to this, forged copies of tho ..-™vda had been printed at the British Government Press, and dropped by aeroplane into Russia, for the purpose of encouraging rebellion. „In reference to obligations "owing by the old regime to British subjects" the following is from an editorial in tha •b i9*jSter Guardian'" of 27th Septem-

Ifle matter of the Tsarist debts is 6£. no interest to this -country, and if and when it is raised Russia will advance counter-claims of compensation for the irregular and strictly illegal war that we made upon Soviet. Russia through Koltehak, Denikin, Wrangel, and other coun-ter-revolutionary war lords. It is tacitly admitted that these counter-claims would come to more than any public debt of Russia to British subjects. The confiscation of British private property in Russia is another matter. Here agree™lSf ■"■? s 1^ achei by.the Lab°»r Government of 1924. Russia acknowledged the duty ot compensation for confiscated private property and similar private claims, subject only to a scrutiny of those claims to nnd out which were fictitious or exaggerated. _ The situation has not changed. Russia is likely to agree to that

If Sir Robert Stout is opposed to any agreement, when even a large section of the Conservative Party favour it what is his alternative?—l am, etc

JOHN S. BARWELL,