RUSSIAN VISIT OVER

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 78, 2 April 1935, Page 9

RUSSIAN VISIT OVER

NOW OFF TO WARSAW BRIEF STOP AT PRAGUE NEXT i ON WAY HOME TO LONDON ' (British Official Wlreless.l (Received April 2, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, April 1. ' Mr. Anthony Eden, whose mission to Russia concluded last night, travelled today from Moscow by rail to Warsaw and was due to arrive ihere this evening. The Polish Ambassador had proceeded to Warsaw to be present, together with representatives of the Polish Government and the Brjtish Ambassador and members of his staff, to welcome Mr. Eden. Conversations with Marshal Pilsudski and members of the Polish Government will open tomorrow and will conclude on Wednesday, when Mr. Eden will leave for Prague for a brief exchange of views with the Czechoslovakian Government on Thursday morning. It is expected that he will return to London by air on Thursday evening. On Mr. Eden's return the European situation will be subjected to a careful study by the' British Government in the light of the reports submitted by him to the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon. The . value of s this unique series of visits to foreign capitals is fully recognised. The contacts established have served the purpose expected of them and the views of the various Powers are more clearly understood.' . The exploratory character of the visits has throughout been emphasised, and at this stage concrete results were not expected. Nor is any early statement of the Government's appreciation of the admittedly anxious position in Europe to be anticipated.SURVEYING THE FIELD. The whole field will be further surveyed in the Anglo-French-Italian Conference at Stresa next week and another opportunity for the exchanges of views between statesmen will arise at the meeting of the special League Council at Geneva a few days lateri The cordial atmosphere in which the discussions' with Messieurs Stalin and Litvinoff took place is appreciated, here. The importance attached by the Soviet Government to the maintenance of peace by a system of collective security operating through the League of Nations is noted with satisfaction, and en this, as on other matters dealt with in the AngloFrench declaration of February 3, a frank exchange, of views revealed that there is at present no conflict of interest between,!..the two Governments. In the words of the ( joint communique: "This fact provides the' foundation for .the development , of fruitful collaboration between them in the cause of peace."