SOVIET AND LEAGUE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 1 December 1927, Page 3

SOVIET AND LEAGUE

REASON FOR ABSTENTION RUSSIA’S INTERNAL DISCORD MOSCOW, 16th Nov. During a conversation with representatives of Continental workers Stalin, the Soviet leader, said the Soviet had nob'joined the League of Nations because it did not wish to' assume the responsibility for its Imperial policy of mandates and war preparations. There would be no freedom of the press for the bourgeoisie while the dictatorship of the proletariat existed, he said, but no proletariat press was freer than Russia’s.

Tlie Riga correspondent of the “Sunday Times” says that the President of tlie Soviet Council, Rykolf, sneaking' at the congress o*' .tlie “Friends of. Russia,” eulogised himself and his colleagues, arid deplored the enemies within who were attempting to undermine Bolshevism. They forced the Governmerit, who hated violence, to resort to reprisals which were necessary Jest the love of peace should be misinterpreted as weakness. The reprisals would continue, he said, until their enemies desisted from their efforts.