TRADE WITH RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3629, 16 November 1920, Page 4

TRADE WITH RUSSIA.

.Now that the true nature of Bolshe- ’ vism has been fully discovered the Brij tish Government is .already exhibiting its confidence in Labour. There is no longer any fear that British Labour will ever link up with Bolshevism, as evidenced in prompt advocacy of entering into. trading relationship with Russia. Lenin is disgruntled, and has despatched iusnlr&ng l . communications to the British Government, not, as some people think, because his armies are successful in South Russia, but because his propaganda has suffered a j terrible defeat at Geneva. The worst of the sting has gone out of Bolshevism; for Britain, and the British Government is anxious to open up trading relationship with Russia that will put tho Russian people on their feet and help them to realise that the cult of . Lenin is of no more value to them than it is to 'British Labour. Sir Robert Horne is already advocating a resumption of trade with Russia, realising that until the resources of* that great producing country are once more on the British market Labour unrest cannot be avoided. He states, without garnishing, that opening up trade with the Russians is the surest way to the evolution of democratic civilised government. The Soviet seems to have nearly run its course; it is beset with new enemies, and its viciousness has been made cle%r to those who were' virtually in ■■■the* entrance to its trap. Russians are rising in greater numbers against a cult that brings in its wake nothing but war, murder and wide-

spread starvation. While nations ax'e urged to realise their responsibility in fighting the common wrongs of the world, there is yet sufficient patriotism, left to prevent’the British Empire being east into the melting pot with a Bolshevik EiiSsia.;' It is‘apparent that resumption of trading relations with Russia will do more in the near future to eliminate social, industrial and political unrest than anything else that is practically available.