SOVIET’S ATTITUDE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4234, 22 January 1940, Page 2

SOVIET’S ATTITUDE

A CURIOUS PROTEST. “Against the hostility of America the Nazis would like to set the friendship of the U.5.5.R.,” says the “Evening Standard” (London). “On

the surface they may count as favourable to them the Russian protest against the British blockade. This protest, however, was a curious document. The charge of illegality against the inclusion of food as contraband is untenable, and the Russians must have known as much. The claim for reparation on account of the procedure of taking ships- into ports for search is unexceptional; such reparation is already provided for in the prize courts. Thus it seems that the Russians were merelycontinuing the policy of exchanging diplomatic communiques for solid advantage. They get the Baltic from the Germans; in return they make formal protest against Britain’s blockade. A highly profitable form o f commerce.”