BRITAIN AND RUSSIA

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17837, 9 October 1929, Page 5

BRITAIN AND RUSSIA

DIPLOMATIC AGREEMENT. ELATION IN MOSCOW. DISAPPROVAL IN ENGLISH PRESS. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Times Cable.) LONDON, Oct. 8. The Riga correspondent of the Times reports that paeans of eulogy for M. Dovgalevsky’s achievement and the “ rout of the pseudo Labour Government of Britain by Soviet diplomatists backed by Britain's masses,” have been the chief themes of week-end meetings in Russia. Communist orators made special speeches on the subject. Official newspapers say the Soviet, from the outset, had made only one demand, namely, complete rehabilitation. This it had forced Britain to accept. All the newspapers resent the submission of the, agreement reached by M. Dovgalevsky with Mr Arthur Henderson, Britain's Foreign Secretary, to the British Parliament. However, they express the opinion that it will not be rejected, because the Liberals are involved in the promise more deeply than the Labour Party. The Times says the agreement was negotiated in a manner which reflects the maximum of discredit on British diplomacy. The Government has gone out of Its way to make the Soviet's diplomatic success as complete and conspicuous as possible.