POLICY OF PEACE
INDICATED TO SOVIETS, OTHER POWERS AGGRESSIVE. DEFENCES TO BE STRENGTHENED (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 8.32 a.m.) MOSCOW, May 21. M. Rykoff, reporting to ,the Congress of Soviets upon foreign relations, claims that the Government is pursuing a policy of peace. Germany was the first nation to appreciate the necessity of extending economic relations to the Soviet Republic, but Britain suffered enormous losses owing to- the rupture of relations. Russian trade with the United 1 States was systematically growing. In the last two years a considerable number of big American engineers were working with Russia, but the stubbornness of the United States in c onnection with the "restoration of normal relations was ridieulous.
He added that the Soviet adopts .a. standpoint of entire non-interference, in the internal relatione of Afghanistan and concluded: “The presence of. aggressive tendencies against the Soviet on the part of certain powers, makes it impossible to forget the necessity of strengthening the defence of • the country.”
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Northern Advocate, 22 May 1929, Page 5
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