BRITAIN AND SOVIET

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 13

BRITAIN AND SOVIET

"GENERAL & EXPLORATORY"

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 21. Mr. Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, announced today that any discussions during the visit to Moscow which the Parliamentary Secretary to the Department of Overseas Trade, Mr. R. S. Hudson, is to make as one of a series of visits to various capitals in furtherance of the Government's policy of increasing trade will be of a general and exploratory char- ! acter. I He will be able to explain difficulties experienced from the British side in working the present commercial arrangements between the two countries, as well as to hear from the Russian side what their difficulties may be. Mr. Stanley has stated on a number of occasions, both in the House of i Commons and to deputations which have waited upon him on the subject of Anglo-Russian trade, that the whole matter was under review by his Department, which did not regard the results of the last agreement as satisfactory. The small use made of British shipping and the tendency for Russia to take re-exports from Britain rather than goods of British origin are among matters which have been under ■ criticism here.