BRITAIN AND RUSSIA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 28 December 1925, Page 7

BRITAIN AND RUSSIA.

AGREEMENT POSSIBLE. CHAGRIN IN MOSCOW. LONDON, Dec. 14. The Daily News asserts that there is a grwing belief that M. Tchitcherin and Sir Austen Chamberlain shortly will meet, and remarks that, in' view of M. Tchitcheriu’s announcement that he is ready for direct Anglo-Russian negotiations, it would he an interesting coincidence if Rapallo, where Sir Austen Chamberlain intends spending a holiday, and where Germany and Russia signed their agreement, should be the place where Anglo-Russian relations were restored. The main stumbling-block, it is nointed out, is Soviet propaganda, but if Russia would give satisfactory assurances to refrain from revolutionary agitation good progress would likely be made. Disappointment, spiced with a certain amount of impatience, is apparent among the Moscow Communists at the meagre results of M. Tohitcherin’s foreign tour. Ho is expected back this week with the Ambassador to France. M. Rakovsky (says the Riga correspondent of The Times'), and the most influential leaders, now assembled in Moscow in connection with the All-Russian Communist Congress, will immediately confer regarding the question of pre-war debts. The tendency is strong towards considerably conceding the western Powers’ demand, as the present economic crisis has inclined many towards a changed foreign policy.