THE NEAR EAST.
ATTITUDE OF RUSSIA. Bv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LAUSANNE, December 4. M. Tchitcherin, interviewed, elaborated the Russian attitude regarding the Dardanelles. He declares that the principle of liberty of the Straits for warships signifies that a Power dominating the sea could concentrate forces in the Black Sea and create a naval base against the Soviet Republic and bordering States. The mere exclusion of warships would mean that its execution would br left to an international body, the strongest member of which ■would impose his will on the others. Such decisions would transform the Black Sea into a lake, dominated bv the strongest naval Power. The peril of opening the Straits to the fleets of the big Powers was accentuated by the Allies’ menacing political and economic anti-Russian action in Persia. where the Powers were attempting to secure oil territories and create anti-Russian bases.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16907, 5 December 1922, Page 5
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