SOVIET SLAVERY
RELATIONS WITH BRITAIN
MORAL QUESTION RAISED
, ■ LONDON, sth February. In the House of Lords, Lord Newton initiated a debate on labour .conditions in Russia. He stated that the Soviet's own documents showed that every citi^ zen was either a military or an industrial conscript. The Bishop of Durham said 'that conditions in Russia raised a moral question which Britain could not leave unanswered without losing her national self-respect. The whole episcopate felt sorrow, consternation, and shame over Britain's relations with the■.-.-, Soviet. Evert at the eleventh hour the Government ought to responsibly dissociate the whole Empire from the abominable proceedings in Russia* He criticised the trade unions' failure to manifest sympathy with fellow.vvorkcrs in Russia. Lord Ponsonby, in reply, said that ho did not desire to defend the Soviet Government system or tho labour condition's. ' T,hcre might bo horrors in Russia, but' Britain could not set out to correct every nation with different standards of morality and social decency from ours.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 32, 7 February 1931, Page 13
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