SOVIET AND EMPIRE

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 78, 2 April 1935, Page 10

SOVIET AND EMPIRE

NO MORE PROPAGANDA RUSSIA'S INTERNAL NEEDS ME. EDEN ASSURED Jnltefl Prest Association—BJ Electric Tel* crapti—CouyricliL (Received April 2, 2 p.m.) LONDON, April 1. A remarkable series of statements in connection with the European crisis has been made available to Mr. Bruce, comprising documents of the Eden-Stalin-Litvinoff talks, some verbatim, and others summarised. It is learned that there is in these a direct bearing on Australia, because the Soviet intimated that it had virtually terminated its propaganda in Australia ' and elsewhere in the Empire, simultaneously ceasing to finance Communist movements in the Dominions. The Soviet did not sign documents or give written undertakings, but Mr. Eden and the British Government are apparently satisfied with assurances as the result of the Moscow conversations, believing that there is no chance of revival, unless it is provoked from without. It is explained that Soviet propaganda from Moscow as an organised drive' for world revolution has been progressively diminishing for a considerable time, and has now practically ceased. M. Stalin and M. Litvinoff frankly explained that this was simply because it suits their book. The Soviet are not looking at the position artificially, but realistically. Their internal reconstruction will occupy half a century, and they consequently need every possible help, and require long peace and substantial finances.