MORE RESPECTABLE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 409, 19 December 1932, Page 3

MORE RESPECTABLE

SOVIET GRADUALLY ACCEPTS SCORNED BOURGEOIS IDEAS. London, Saturday. With its dre-ams of a world revolution growing fainter as economic and political problem3 are receiving more attention, the Soviet is leading a kind of double life, asserts the Moscow correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. Slogans of the revolutionary f-aith are still religiously shouted across the Red Square, while M. Litvinoff busily negotiate3 treaties with capitalist neighhours. The third International's utterances, at the same time, diminish in importance. They do not xepresent the Soviet policy, as the Government becomesi more respectable, and count for little in shaping its foreign policy. For example, the Comintern consider3 the Manchurian situation the worst form of capitalist exploitation, yet the Soviet regards it more leniently than Sir John Simon, the British Foreign Minister, and may even conclude a non-agression pact with Japan, hased on recognition of Manchuknn.

The Soviet is equally anxious to enter into a new trade agreement with Britain. It is not prepared to spend money in fomenting disturbance3 in India or elsewhere, but sets greater store on the expansion of trade with Britain, on the French Pact, and on the prospect of diplomatic recognition by the United States.