BREAK WITH RUSSIA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 June 1927, Page 8

BREAK WITH RUSSIA.

TRADE TRANSEER. “GOOD EOR EMPIRE.” LONDON, May 25. “The break with Russia should help Empire trade, especially in wheat, dairy produce, and skins, ’ said Mr. Ben Morgan, chairman of the Empire Producers’ organisation. “Britain,” he said, “imported goods valued at £20,000,000 from Russia m 1926, and 1 anticipate that tile bulk of that trade can he transferred to Empire sources.” “Like the man who introduced the rabbit to Australia, and the gipsy moth, to America, Mr. Lloyd George, who first brought the Red trader-spy to Britain, may .claim that he meant no harm,” says the “Evening News.” “Visions of bulging corn bins warped his judgment, anil lie became too responsive to the ousy potentialities of a bulging party chest. “Mr. MacDonald pursued the acclimatisation, diplomatic recognition providing the plotters with a sort oi perpetual close season; but Mr. MacDonald's political army was more in i n Lei led ua I contact with Russia. .Mr. Baldwin’s statement was more like ihe hectic work of l,c Qoox Ilian a report of the activity of a trading company. The subterranean photostat room, the door without a handle, ami a sinister form hastily burning documents, may he part of Soviet diplomacy. but we want none of them.”