RUSSIA’S HOPES.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1922, Page 5

RUSSIA’S HOPES.

LOOKING TO AMERICA. UNDERSTANDING SOUGHT. SOVIET COME TO STAY, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received May 31, 8.40 p.m. New York, May 31. The New York Herald’s Moscow correspondent interviewed Trotsky, who said: “We had imagined the Genoa Conference was primarily a business meeting to discuss business matters in a business way, but we were wrong. Business matters could liardly be seen through a political fog, but a way out has offered itself. Political and military questions are apparently to he separated from business questions and an attempt made to solve them. “I think Genoa attained this: That European statesmen realise that B the Soviet Republic had come to stay. It is now an established fact and you cannot destroy it by ignoring it. Our main hope is founded on an understanding with the United States. I have reason to believe President, Harding takes a modified view, unlike the Wilson Administration. Moreover, we have an interest in common in the expansion of Japan, which, despite the Washington treaty, is not a thing of the past. We believe, therefore, that upon political as well as economic grounds we will be able to find a basis for discussion ani agreement with the United States.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.