ANGLO-SOVIET TRADE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 424, 2 December 1933, Page 5

ANGLO-SOVIET TRADE

j Canada's Dictatorial | | Demands \ j j London, Nov. 22. ' i How much longer is Mr. R. B. Bennett* ■ Canadian Prime Minister, going to reI duce the British Government to tha I same frozen passivity as Larvvood re- ! duced the Australian batsmen? asks tha 1 News Chronicle in drawing attention to j the protracted Anglo-Soviet trade negoi tiations. ' | The paper says that Mr. Bennett, with ' his dictatorial demand that Canada shall be first, is dominating British policy in ' an important economic foreign field. Ha ] bullied and bamboozled the British dclej gates at the Ottawa Conference into j placing an embargo against goods cheap-* I ened by State action. Now, while Britain is dallying, Presi- ! dent Eoosevelt has done in spectacular ! fashion in November what Britain might ! have achieved without fuss in July, enj abling the strengthening of Russo-Ameri-i can political and cultural relations and i belittling British influence in Russia and I the Far East, besides preventing Biitish I trade everywhere. , Cynical competitors are profiting by j Britain's hypocritical pretence that Rusi sia is still a moral leper, too loathsome ! to sell herrings to.