RUSSIA UNDER SOVIET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19676, 30 June 1927, Page 9

RUSSIA UNDER SOVIET.

LORD GREY'S CRITICISM* SYSTEM DOOMED TO FAIL. QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (British Official Wireless.) A. and N.Z. RUGBY, June 28. A reference was made to-day to the British Government's break with Russia in a speech by Viscount Grey of Fallodon, who was Foreign Secretary from 1905-16. Ho said the policy of the Soviet Government was not. a Russian national policy, but one cf world revolution. Lord Grey continued : "The policy of Britain, as far as internal affairs in Russia are concerned, should be to leave them absolutely alone. Everything in Russia is so against human nature that the system will break down under its own weight. "I hope no British Government will resume relations with Moscow on any footing which is not genuine and sincere." In the House of Commons, the UnderSecretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. G. T. Locker-Lampson, said the information discovered in the course of the search at Soviet House, relating to Russian interference in the domestic affairs of foreign countries, had been communicated to the Governments of the countries concerned. Referring to the executions of several persons without trial in Russia, Mr. Locker-Lampson said that although the criminal code of the Soviet laid down that punishment was to be determined by judicial bodies, in accordance with their socialistic conception of the law, it was obvious that certain persons had been put to death without what would be termed a trial in this country. He said he was not aware of more than one British subject, Mr. Davison, who had been executed, and according to ihe Soviet Government he had been tried. Regarding a suggestion that persons who desired to obtain passports to Russia should bo warned, the Under-Secretary said the risks were so well ventilated fa the press that ho thought special warning was not necessary.