“DIFFICULTIES AT GENOA.”

Evening Star, Issue 17957, 2 May 1922, Page 8

“DIFFICULTIES AT GENOA.”

10 THE' EDITOR. Sir, —On reading your sub-lea.der_ in last night’s ‘Star’ I was very surprised at your caustic remarks concerning M. Tchitcherin, You speak of tho Bolshevik M. Tchitcherin hobnobbing in a dress suit with tho King of Italy and living like a gentleman for the first time since Sovietism achieved its triumph, if not for tho firsts time in his life. Well, this will bo news for the benefit of your readers. M. Tchitcherin comes of an intensely bureaucratic family, and members of tho family have been prominent governors, ambassadors, genera's, and court favorites in tho service of tho Romanoff dynasty for hundreds of years. M. Tchitcherin is a highly educated aristocrat, and perhaps more used to a dress suit than Mr Lloyd George, who probably never wore one till he was Prime Minister. Then you go on to say: “For a fortnight ho can. forgot the horrors of tho famine districts.” Well, I fail to see how he can do that, when lie secs Mr Lloyd fjporgo' every day, for was it not Britain that blockaded Russia, thus cutting off supplies and causing famine? I think the cables published in tho Press concerning Russian affairs arc an insult to the intelligence of tho people of New Zealand.—l am, etc., April 28. Reader. [Onr correspondent's imagination certainly excels itself when a. blockade, long past, in any case, is made responsible for a failure of the wheat harvest.—Ed. L.S.]