THE NOTE TO RUSSIA
SOVIET’S IMPUDENT REPLY. PRESS COMMENTS. “FALSE CHARGES AND VAGUE PROFESSIONS.” LONDON, February 27. Most of the newspapers comment on the Soviet’s reply to the British Note. The “Daily Express” says that the reply contains much that is hypocritical and impudent. Attempts to foment rebellion in Britain have been supported by funds from Russia. There has been directand indirect anti-British propaganda in Britain and elsewhere, but there is no need for Britain to tear up documents and lose business in hysterical anger. A formal, open rupture may ultimately be inevitable, but the Government rightly believes that the moment for that has not arrived.
Tho “Daily Herald” says: “Labour will fight vigorously against a breach with Russia, not only because it would be bad trade and dangerous to peace, but because the chief cause of the Tory agitation is hatred of the Soviet simply and solely because it is based on anticapital philosophy. Arthur McManus, alleged signatory of the Zinovicff letter, is -read.—(A and N.Z.)
ADVICE OF “THE TIMES.”
LET THE ifATTER REST.
(Received Monday, 5.5 p.m.)
LONDON, February 27.
“The Times,” in a leader, urges the Government to ignore the Soviet, reply, which contains merely a mixture of mis-statements, false charges and vague professions of pacific intentions. The matter should momentarily be allowed to rest. Protracted controversy would merely complicate the China situation, which, although plainly connected with Soviet intrigue, should be handled separately. The Chinese civil war never before reached such an acute stao-o deeply concerning the civilised world, or assumed a form wherein all longestablished foreign interests were so directly involved.—(A. aad‘ N.Z.) A WASTED PROTEST. SOVIET AND BRITISH LABOUR. (Received Monday, 8.40 p.m.) LONDON, February 28. The “Morning Post,” commenting on the .Russian reply to the Bratisa Note, says Sir Austen Chamberlain’s protest was merely so many wasted words. Litvinoff, in composing his rejoinder, had a sharp eye to campaigning interests among his friends, the British Labour Party. The Note leaves the Fonjign Office with the alternatives of entering into an undignified altercation, or leaving Litvinoff’s distortions of the main' issue unanswered, so that the Labour Party can say they are unanswerable. The “Daily Mail” characterises tho Soviet Noto as insolent, mandaeious and diffuse.— (A. and N.Z.) GERMAN SARCASM. (Received Monday, 8.40 p.m A . BERLIN, February 28. The newspapers give prominence to the Soviet’s reply, and comment on -it in an aggressive, sarcastic tone under such headings as “Moscow Mocks England.”—(A. and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 1 March 1927, Page 5
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