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RUSSIA AND ENGLAND. the Chinese masses, and talks eastern front; that England ether Russian struggle for dominance about Russian influence" inorganized the revolution or at in the Fat East. Karakhan was China as on an ethical par with least did nothing to prevent It.nble to sit back while Japan and American Influence or British Diplomatists of the old Russian the United States bors down on influencer
school any these things and be England. Meanwhile, Japan Absence for so long from the lieve them-for, that is what they pails the props from under Chang game of diplomacy leaves Rusklan would have done if they had been Tso-lin, whom she kept so long intensely in-
manners still a bit uncouth. But directing the destinies of England.as an anti-Russian buffer at concerning
there is every evidence that the was. In this same school that Mukden, and Moscow signs over, Russia and Great Britain has Justid talent remains, and with it the two outstanding. diplomatists to Japanese interests the all con- been written by Mr. G. Ells the bulk of the old foreign policy, of Soviet Russia--Tehitcherin and cessions they sought in the feland Porter, the well-known American And as that policy develops it will K rakhan-received their train of Saghalin. writer:-
become apparent that the Russining. It is in these two that the The Russian bear is apparently of to-day has two advantages hear is beginning again to walk trying to resume its old habit of over the Russia of the Taara: like a man. walking like a man. In morning-he is not bound by entangling Russia is only just beginning to coat and top-hat, it is again knock alliances and the prestige of her get back on her feet to engage ing at the doors of diplomacy, revolution adds strength to the onec more in the struggle with Awakened from its delirium pf hand. that has always been England. But what she has been revolutionary, internationalism, engaged in stirring up revolutionable to do heretofore has beca. once more it makes a bid to be in the realms of her enemies. done. The Treaty of Rapallo was received in those circles where
The Russians have ever. been signed with Germany "in 1922. the sole requirement has ever
the prime realists of international Turkey received encouragement been smoothness of tongue,
n emile politics, Never have they permit. and assurances from Moscow brought to a standstill. concealment of claw,
during her controversy with Eng- which will hide' implacable ted sentiment, ethics or morgia to national enmities.
interfere with their aspiration to land at Lausanne. Italy has been egged on to do what she could Material power and dominance. forced to the conclusion that she ends they have always kept clearly against England's domination of Locarno" meant that she had lost mended by the Commission, and the Mediterranean. After the in sight and have moved toward smashing of the Anglo-Japanese them with inscrutable persistence Alliance at the Washington Con-
One of the realities standing between Russia and realization ofference, Moscow almost immea commercial treaty. This treaty
In plain words, Russia has been
is, a talion, not an institution: that her Communism is an isolated system, not a world-consuming flame; that her state capitalism is an economic form, not the whole of economics; that her proletarian dictatorship governs Russia alone, and passes not a mile beyond her
frontiera.
diately softened her attitude towards Tokyo.
These were gestures in the
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Rugby, Feb; 9, The Royal Commission which was appointed last summer to report on the whole financial structure of Incidentally, it may be observed the Health Insurance Acts has how that perhaps England still has a completed its task, and its report muve or two. in mind to counter-is expected at the end of the act the situation brought about in month.. the Turift Conference and in the Extraterritorial Conference which was to have begun recently, Because of wars among Chinese factions, the latter conference has had to be indefinitely postponed and the other one has been In the West, British diplomacy won a decisive victory over the Russian at Locarno. For Russia,
Germany and just at 3 time when Russo-German relations were being further, cemented by
was signed on October 12 the Locarno Pacts were successfully concluded on October 16..
her aspirations has been Great Britain. Great Britain was "the enemy" to be fought at every turn, even by an alliance with her,right direction, but only gestures;. Ever since the idea for a securi- even by fighting a world war on for up until the last year or so Russians never lost Russia has been in, no physical her side.
to grips with sight of this reality.. The war has condition to come not changed it. Nor. has the re- the British lion in the rough and
tumble of international politics.
But developments last year in China showed that the game had been resumed. And this year's Locarne
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This implacable enmity between Germany with advice against going on with negotiations. Ger- Russia and England, which has many's entry to the Langue of Survived all the vicissitudes of Nations has been continuously war and revolution, is not by any means the only game that is being and consistently opposed by
played in international politics. Russia ever since the signing of But it is by all odds the most the Rapallo Treaty, Russian comment on Locarno is, "Germany important in its bearing upon has been drawn into the orbit of world cannot keep out of it entire THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY British diplomatic influence" and "Germany has capitulated before, and the machinery that has been set up for peaceful organiza- England."
tion seems at the moment power. Tchiteherin, personally, up to the last moment, tried to keep less before it. The ultimate crash
may be postponed for a long time, | from bringing the Germany Locarno negotiations to a conclu-but only some new and drastic sion. Since then, for two months, turn in international affairs will
prevent it. he has been in France, travel- ling about the country and hold- ing conversations with Fremier Briand and with President Dou- mergue. Just what is the pur- pose there, aside from the obvious one of straightening out Franco-
remains the Russian game in the Anglo-Russian relations,
In a world of nations Russin has found that she must act as a nation or not at all. She has dis- covered that asertion of her in-volution.
From the viewpoint of Russlan 'dependence and sovereignty de-
to have penda - upo conformity with the realism, the war was "prevailing cre:lo.
ended with the power of Russia
showed that Great A few years ago Russin would augmented--for use against Eng- have howled bloody murderland. Russia was to have dictat- Britain had not lost all her against the Pacts of Locarno, ed the peace-to the injury of strategic tunning. That, at least, denouncing them as a capitalist England. The post-bellum period is the evident interpretation from
10 Europe. was attempt
seen Europe the viewpoint of Russian realism. have to enslave
After Karakhan had managed To-day Foreign, Minister Tchit-dominated, by Russia, organised"
to stir Chinese anti-foreign senti- cherin politely inquires among the by Russia-against England.
These realists will assert that ment to action, a certain 'amount chancelleries of the Continent whether Locarno did not represent England was playing the same of luck played into Russian hands. an alignment of Western Europe | game. They will say that Eng-For, after the anti-foreign feeling against Russin
land could not afford to let Russia had died down in all other direc- play a large part in the victory tions, anti-British feeling remain over Germany; that England sup-ed. At this point it was America plied Russin' with munitions too that brought pressure for Chinese meager in quantity and defective in quality: that England prevent ed the reorganization of the Russian armies by sinking the ship carrying Kitchener to the
A few years ago Russia would have plainly designed what she is doing in China as a movement toward uniting, the proletariat of the world. To-day the suave Karakhan, Soviet Ambassador in Peking, denies that the hund of Moscow is engaged in stirring up
tariff autonomy and for a con~ sideration of China's demand for abolishment of extraterritoriality.
Both of these movements favour
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