RUSSIA AS SHE IS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 February 1925, Page 7

RUSSIA AS SHE IS.

EXTRA EDITiOH

TO TRADE UNION EYES. BRITISH DELEGATION’S REPORT. “A STRONG AND STABLE STATE” BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received Feb. 28, 11.35 a.rn.) LONDON, Feb. 27. T])e official report of the British Trade Union delegation '* to Russia in November and December of last year has now been issued in a voluminous document of 250 pages, with illustrations, maps and index, and a glossary. Members of the delegation come to the following conclusions: The Union of Soviet Republics is a strong and stable State. Its Government is based: (1) On a system of State Socialism that, lias the active support of a large majority of the workers, and the acceptance equally of a large majority of the peasants; (2) on a federal structure that, gives very full cultural and very fair’ political liberties to racial , and regional minorities, together with full religious toleration. The machinery of government semes to work well, and the Government is in every way better than anything else Russia has ever had, and has done, and is doing, work in which old'er State systems failed, and are still failing. These good results have reconciled all but a very small minority to renouncing the rights of opposition that are essential to political liberty elsewhere. This causes no resistance, partly because these rights are replaced by others more valuable under the Soviet system, and partly because recent movement has been steadily towards their restoration. Finally, the whole constitutes a new and interesting departure that is well worth foreign study, and a new development that may greatly be benefited by foreign assistance.