RUSSIA HOLDS THE KEY.
[By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Wednesday, 9.15 p.m.) WASHINGTON. February 8. The Senate Foreign Relations’ Committee has decided to ask the State Secretary to lay before it Mr Morris’s report on the negotiations with the Japanese. The Naval Committee invited Sir Philip Gibbs to testify regarding disarmament. Mr Gibbs said the whole key to the European situation was Russia. Europe could not disarm so long as the menace of the Russian Red Army existed. He recommended that the Bolsheviks be invited to a disarmament conference with Germany, Austria and Turkey. COPENHAGEN, February 8. Trotsky states that Russia still has two million soldiers. Russia should keep on friendly terms with Germany, which supplied her with arms; also Japan, as otherwise war In the Near East was not impossible.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLII, Issue 1735, 10 February 1921, Page 5
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