REWARDED BY SOVIET

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 147, 19 December 1945, Page 7

REWARDED BY SOVIET

Dynamo Football Team Rec. 9 a.m. MOSCOW, Dec. 18

The Dynamo footballers, who recently visited Britain, have received 10,000 roubles (about £1000 sterling) each in recognition of their performances.

The captain, SemichaStny, received 12,000 roubles, the trainer, Yakushkin, 15,000.

Five other players received the title "Honoured Master of Sport." The goalkeeper, Khomich, was given the title "Master of Sport."

is primarily a Soviet-American quarrel. It has not gone without notice, both in London and Paris, that the tendency towards "polarisation" of world affairs, with Moscow and Washington exerting opposite attractions, has helped to renew the old ties between France and Britain. Being European Powers, they are more deeply and more immediately concerned with Europe's future than are the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. THE LEVANT AGREEMENT. It is reported from Paris that the Levant agreement provides for the withdrawal of British troops from Syria to Palestine and of the French troops to the Lebanon, the latter to remain there until security arrangements for the area are decided upon by the United Nations. Since it is hoped that the United Nations will come into active existence before long, the period of the French military sojourn in the Lebanon should perhaps be no longer than the time it would take to carry out the full evacuation. But so long as the meeting of the United Nations is an uncertain fixture, there is no certainty in the Levantine mind. The agreement, it is remarked, seems to point to an increase in French troops within the small republic, with no concurrent increase in British troops, and no immediate prospect of a methodical withdrawal from the whole Levant zone was envisaged in the joint AngloFrench communique which described in broad' terms the object of the Anglo-French agreement. The number of French troops is, in fact, small, and only a matter of a few contingents from Syria will go to swell the French ranks in the Lebanon, themselves less than 10,000. Their presence, it is thought, should not prejudice any future arrangements with the Levant States, provided the British and the French are harmonising policies that have as their object the Deaceful development of the' whole Middle East.