BRITAIN AND RUSSIA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18785, 19 May 1923, Page 5

BRITAIN AND RUSSIA

TIME LIMIT EXTENDED By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright. LONDON, May 17. Mr R. McNeill. Under secretary for Foreign Affairs, in The House of ' Commons, said, in regard to Rus- ; 1 sia, that he had already promised to ! extend the time limit mentioned in ] his Note to enable Krassin to communicate with his Government if he desired to do so. Beyond that promise he could not go. The position was that after Kras- * sin had seen Lord Curzon, he should . have an opportunity of asking his ■ Government whether it would accept our terms, and no undertaking ' could be given that the Note would ! not be put in operation during th»» ! recess. Mr Ramsay MacDonald, Leader of , the Labour Party, protested that the I impression gained from Tuesday’s •• debate was that before there was a i dunnite rupture the matter would . again be submitted to the House. r Mr Stanley Baldwin, Chancellor of |' the Exchequer, replied that the executive must have a free hand, and could not be precluded in its action merely because the House was not sitting. NON-COMMITTAL REPLY LONDON, May 17. ' M. Krassin conferred with Lord | Curzon a’, the foreign Office for two j neur=. Colonel V> edgwood and Captain i Benix (Labour members) in the j House of Commons, asked for an as- , surance that there would be no rup | ture with Russia before the re-as- i sembly of Parliament after the , W hitsun recess. Mr Baldwin said he could not give such an assurance.