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23RD, 1995.

A SURPRISE FOR AMERICA,

ADVERSE BALANCE OF TRADE.

FIRST TIME AN NINE YEARS The Washington correspondent of the Loudon Morning Post writing Mayt 16th, said:

15th, was Mr. Kokain, who hastened to London from Makow by means of aerial

He occupied a seat the Dit

For the first time since April, 1914, there and followed, Strangers Gallery, and tho

was an adverse balance of trade against with alert attention.

ero ant without a touch the United States last March, the excess of dramm

through Mr. Hamsbeing in round figures £12,000,000. These of merchandise imports over exports MacDocald, appealed for a consideration figures, just made publie by the Depart of all outstanding questions by means of a conference: the Government,

the ment of Commerce, camo usurpris Under Secretary for Foreign Ash

Affairs, sabinit to the business community, and "their the actions of the S Soviet Government toignificance will be appreciated by British very plain-spoken eritic Ins satisfied with Entil we have been given detailed

eriticism, declared that the tonnufacturers and exporters less than fall ompliance with our figures of the commodities and their and then anounce that Lord Curzon was prepared to meet Mr. Krussin untry of origin, it will be impossible to tell whether the incredsed imports were go through the whole of the British in raw materials or manufactured goods. cluins, and, if necessary, to extend the whether Great Britain; the Continent of time limit

wunde Europe, South America, or the Orienty).

atto Gages that con- were the largest factors in this demandj

an eloquent appeal "for sidcration of questions, which were remark- ably difficult to consuler, in atmosphere

for imports, but it is believed that raw

than manufactured/

of calm. Above all, he emphasized theaterials rather essential difference between Russia and the articles will account for the usual balance, Western

Powers, and said that before the although it is known that the British

that solution,

great country was more or trade in manufactures has increased, des in the condition of France in the days pits the high tariff which was supposed of Louis XIV. He indicated that in his to be practically prohibitive. view Bilshevism was but a passion here niverse balance of trade, which, as pre

Government officials believe that "this! No country con

could I remain in that atmosphere without

perishing, and the predicted that minary returne indicate, was continued the Bolshevist would develop into the last month. will cessitate the shipment. Russian Imperialist again. Bussia was the of gold to Europe, to which must be added fuctor to be considered, and he urged the the gold to meet invisible chargis such na Government to take full advantage of any shipping payments, commission and insur- conversations which might ensue with Mrance, emigrant remittances, tourist expen The spech was one of the most effectived at eighty millions sterling last var), ditures, interest on investments" (estimat delivered by Mr. Lloyd George in the

in recent times. It was short, eloquent capital exported. The Department of and a further sum of £110,000,000, for passionate in its warping, but dispassionate

in its actitude towards the Government. It Commere is making a careful survey to viewed the state of the world with alarm.ascertain the amount of the invisible North, ,south, cast, and west the condition balance against this country, as the esti was grave, and (using a a typically characteris mates of authorities widely difér, although tie and vivid phrase) it was no place to drop they all agree that it runs inter millions. matches in Mr. Cloyal George gave a lent Merchandise trade balance; against the to the Liberal Opposition, and the House had United States hayo only been known seyen the spectacle of Mr. Asquith associating times in the last fifty-two years. himself "most emphatically with every the figures of inst March, in view of the word he had uttered and reinforcing the unsettled conditions still existing in eloquent appeal, which had been made to the Eirope, and the obstacle of the Amerienn Government.

tariff, pare ar study of serious interest economists as well as business 'mon,

LABOUR AND BOLSHEVIST METHO

"

Mr. Hammy MacDonald; criticized the aetion of the Government in erowding into the Note complaints which ranged over a very considerable period. It was time, he considered, that these debating antica" were stopped. The moral he drew was that had there been proper diplomatic relations. between

the two countries there would have been

such accumulations of incidents, After citing the action of the Call tion Government, which in unsparing fashion, he i

Heaea

OUR AMERICANTM“COUSINS.”

MR. WICKHAM STEED'S VIEW.

Mr. H.-Wickham Stred (Editor of The Rimes) speaking on "The Americans." d the Samson Clark Building, Mortiner Street, W. on May 18th, strove to dispel

he indemned the idea of Anglo-American "cousinship"

that policy was being revived. It was They had been told in innumerable surely time for the the Kassian facts fovernment to accept speeches at Pilgrims barquets, he said,

went through the

that blood was thicker than water, that complaints made by Loni Curzon, and, in hands were stretched across the sea, nud regard to propaganda, he laid down the that British and American ideals were view that if a case was made out against the same.

most

the Moscow Government of Biding

nad 1 for one wish that Pilgrims' han alætting revolution or creating disturbances quets could be prohibit by law on both in the Enst it was wrong, and it was sides of the Atlantic for at least ten Absolutely impossible, for us to take no years," he declared. They do not mis notice. If it could he proved that Moscow lead the Americans, but they do mislead sent money into Gt. Britain for the purpose us. They keep in the foreground of our of interfering constitutional then that, too, was wrong, and the

the Govern attention the cousinship idea, and hide ment were perfectly entitled to make their from us the fundamental fact that the protest in the must energetic and st Americans are foreigners." If we could formidable way.

a slightly sort of Having laid down this get rid of the notion that is American every charge must be proved before it was man, if we could persunde ourselves that accepted, and he drew attention to cases nothing was a greater obstacle to inter- he alleged, it had been proved that comprehension than an approximately the evidence had been untrustworthy." common Innguage, we should have gone a The Tous cheered the Labour, tender long way towards creating a basis for a for his forcofal assertion of the right of real understanding. The way to under religious liberty. He claimed, however, stand Americans was for the English- that all the facts should be examined, man to go to the United States persuaded and rend. R. letter which declared that that he was entering a thoroughly foreign ta, blazen to the world that there was country. He would then be so delighted general religious persecution in Russ at the many points of resemblance he was ridiculous. The most disquieting would find that he would feet himself in a thing of all WAS the 21st section the Russian Criminal

which nobody

Code

under friendly atmosphere, and would swear was allowed in schools that the Americans, though very different

was perfectly donat said Mr. MacDonald, from Englishmen, were the jolliest poeple |

the

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to teach

deplorable, bat he claimed that on the earth.

Mr. Steed said he was not one of those way to bring about an improvement was not to break a trade agreement but to try who believed than America' should mind and re-establish Europe. When, he asked, her own business and keep away from were our Governments going to cease to Europe. While we ought not to nume punish themselves and their own working consinship, or even kinship, with Ameri- clauses in order to show moral and political enns, we should never forget that they indignation against some foreign country shared equally with us the whole inherit If the trade agreement was torn up a state ance of English ideas of freedom.

of incipient war would be created.

FULL CABINET'S DEMANDA.

· Mr. Romild- McNeill_began his speech

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tention on the part of the Government to bring about war or conflict. We wanted to preserve the

the most harmonious relations with all foreign nations, including Russia but at the same time to protect and promote our own interests. He paid a high tribute to the Russian

people of for their great sacrifices in the early days the war, and declared that it was not our intention to tear up the trade agreement but to see that it was observed. Then he proceeded to show that Russia had never observed

the agreement. When he mention e propaganda the Labour roen called for the source of the inforamtion, and hud to be content with the statement that it had heon found in wireless messages. There were many lively passages, particularly when Mr. McNeill quoted articles written by Mr. Philip Snowden and Mr. Clynes denouncing the action of the Russian Government. There was further

when outery the Under-Secretary

late" Romna Catholic on to the

of Petro

The grad as having been murdered. Government

were not grounding their policy on the r

e question of religious prerseen- tion, and he said that many English people no doubt blamed them for not doing so. We had negotinted with the Russian Government until we were sick of fit, arki

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

JUNE 22nd, 1923.

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order to obtain-instractions the time-limit Having thus defined the attitude of the mentioned fugar Noto would be extended men reasonably in order to allow that to be

Government, then and done. It must not be taken to mean, said

tioned the arrival of

said that if he wished for an interview Mr. McNeill, that we meant to be wills-tlin Rosign-Beuretary, Lard. Lurznaatisfed vil anything Jess than cumpliance WES willing to meet him, to ga. with our tering. The demands had not been through our claims with him, show his put forward hastily, but only after the due their reasonableness, and explain the way consideration and approval of the Prime in which we complained of their being Minister. They were arrived at by s full met. Ile also intimated that if Mr. Cabinet, over which the Prime Minister Krussin, as a result of that, converantion himself preside, and the whole policy had

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