BRITAIN AND RUSSIA
AGREEMENT POSSIBLE CHAGRIN IN MOSCOW LONDON, Dee. 14. The “Daily News” asserts that there is a growing belief that M. Tchicherin and Sir Austen Chamberlain shortly will meet, and remarks that, in view of M. Tchicherin’s announcement that he is ready for direct Anglo-Rus-sian negotiations, it would bo an interesting coincidence if Rapallo, where Sir Austen Chamberlain intends spending a holiday, and where Germany and Russia signed their agreement, should be the place where Anglo-Russian relations were restored. The main stumbling-block, it is pointed out, is {Soviet propaganda, but if Russia would give satisfactory assurances to refrain from revolutionary agitation goed progress would likely be made. Disappointment, spiced with a certain amount of impatience, is apparent among the Moscow Communists at the meagre results of AL Tchicherin’s foreign tour. He is expected back this week with the Ambassador to France, AL Rakovsky, says the Riga correspondent of “The Times,” ami the most influential leaders, now assembled in Moscow in connection with the All-Russian Com munist Congress, will immediately confer regarding the question of pre-war debts. The tendency is strong towards considerably conceding the western Powers’ demand, os the present economic crisis has inclined many towards a changed foreign policy-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19478, 24 December 1925, Page 10
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