SOVIET EAGER FOR SETTLEMENT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21508, 22 November 1939, Page 7

SOVIET EAGER FOR SETTLEMENT

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright (Received November 21, 6.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 20. In a report to the “New York Times” from Moscow Mr G. E. R. Gedye says that the unusual prominence given to the intrinsically unimportant Russian-Japanese developments shows the Soviet’s eagerness for a general Russian-Japanese political settlement. Japanese circles are definite that the Soviet has not suggested nonaggression and that other political con • siderations are behind all the recent talks. The Japanese belief is that the Soviet cannot afford to abandon the Chinese, which is an obstacle to a general settlement. Mr Gedye adds that while it would be helpful for both parties to regularise their commercial relations it is unlikely that important exchanges of goods will result.