SOVIET AND AGREEMENTS
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. liable Association.) LONDON, Oct. 19. Mr Leslie Urquhnrt, in a statement regarding the Soviet’s non-ratification of the agreement, described it as a hitch, not a breakdown. The agreement hud not been denied ratification on its merits as a business contract, but simply and solely because politics had boon injected into the mater. But politics would be pul into their proper place when “the rulers of Russia realised how impossible they made it for foreign capital to re-enter Russia, it would appear by withholding ratification that the Russians thought thev saw a chance of inducing Groat Britain to recognise the Soviet’s claim for inclusion in the coming conference re the Straits.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 11 October 1922, Page 5
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