TRADE AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 15, 15 December 1932, Page 4

TRADE AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA.

MOSCOW ANNOYED AT DENUNCIATION. The denunciation by Great Britain of the Trade Agreement with the Soviet was the subject of comment in the Soviet newspapers on October 21. The Izvestia, the official organ of the Soviet Government, expressed anxiety for the fate of the “British masses,” thousands of whom, it said, depended on Soviet orders. By ending the agreement, it continued, the British Government failed to recognise its own interests, a dangerous omission at the present moment, just when the unemployed had begun carrying the struggle into the open street.

The Izvestia particularly inveighed against “the notorious Thomas, Minister for Dominion Affairs,” who it said, had put himself at the head of the diehards. It declared that if the British Government thought they could influence the Soviet Government by their methods into making concessions when a new agreement was proposed for negotiation they were

greatly mistaken, as the world plenty of other countries glad to ac cent Soviet trade. '1 he Soviet Go - eminent had means to convince the British Government that Soviet trade was not small change which miglrt be used for bargaining .with other customers. The Izvcstia also protested against Mr Thomas s references in Parliament to “State action by “n.v foreign country which might stultify the intentions of the Ottawa preieiences” and to “dumping sweated goods.” Comment was made in the House of Commons recently against the venomous attacks of Russian papers because the trade agreement was annulled.