RUSSIA

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 August 1924, Page 5

RUSSIA

GLOATING OYER BRITAIN

NO NEED TO PAY DEBTS,

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT

(Received Aug. 28, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 27. . Leading Bolshevik commissars continue to gloat over the enormous benefits accruing from the Anglo-Soviet-treaty. M. Kamenoff typically asserted that Russia need not pay her creditors even a louse. He claims that England, under the treaty, recognises the Soviet’s right to confiscate private property.

The-Times says: “A feature of the disclosures regarding the treaty is the methods by w’hieh it was negotiated. After the Foreign Office had announced that the negotiations were abortive, according to Moscow papers, Messrs Pureel and Wallhead, or other Labourites, conducted a new form of secret diplomacy behind the backs of Cabinet and threatened the' Government, with their resignation if their solution was not accepted. This is not the only ease in. which it is claimed that pressure was successfully exerted upon Ministers. ’ ’

The Times adds; “The nation had a right to know who are the men who undertake to supersede its recognised representatives in important negotiations and apply pressure to the administrators of criminal law,” the last reference being to the withdrawal of the prosecution of Campbell.—Times.