File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎357v] (362/1080)

In this respect England is showing a certain degree of moderation. She
is possessed of greater trust in the Soviet Note. The English press has
animatedly discussed the question of the acknowledgment of the Tsarist debts,
It certainly does not follow that we should be seduced by the too cordial rela
tions towards ourselves of the English capitalists. Nevertheless, we must not
lose sio'ht of the opposite attitudes of the French and English bourgeoisie towards |
this act of acknowledgment on the part of the Soviet Government. This
divergence is no accidental phenomenon. It is evoked by those antagonisms
which at the present,moment are severing the link of friendship between
England and France. These antagonisms were sufficiently glaringly manifest
at the decision on the Upper Silesian question. The two countries diverged still
more by the separate treaty concluded by the French and Angora Governments.
We must hope that these rivalries will become still more considerably pro
nounced. The apple of discord is the wish of France to rule undividedly on the
Continent. England cannot agree to this nor does she wish it shall be so.
She is ready to grasp at any possibility which will keep her from losing her
influence in the countries of the Continent.
The acknowledgment by the Soviet Government of. the Tsarist debts
appears to be one of these possibilities. England without fail takes advantage
of it at the expense of France. In the near future, other things being equal,
we must expect corresponding political advances, from, the English. In that
event France will be unable to maintain herself in an independent position,
There is already observable an alteration in French public opinion favour
able to a change in the relations with the Soviet Eepublic. From the moment
when England establishes unconditional recognition of the Soviet. Republic
without recourse to any kind of diplomatic circumlocution, France will have to
follow suit.
There is no other way.
“ Izvestia, ” published at AsJchabad, December 2nd) 192L
RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
The National Assembly has sent to Chicherin a note on the subject of the
Franco-Turkish treaty in which the Turkish Government explains that this
agreement can in no way undermine the treaty concluded in Moscow between
Russia and Turkey, that Turkey would never conclude a treaty that could do
harm to the policy, friendship and warmheartedness existing between the two
peoples and epitomised in the Moscow-Kars treaty.
THE SAFETY OF EUROPE.
London, 23rd .—The English press sharply criticizes the attitude of JBriand
at the W ashington Conference, pointing out that the policy of Paris with
respect to Russia is permeated the whole time by a spirit of implacable
animosity. The. only way to disperse the danger of Bolshevik militarism is to
utilize all possibilities offering themselves for bringing Russia into the family
of civilized nations.
EVIL DEEDS OF THE JAPANESE.
After two years of stubborn inquiry it has at last been possible to get upon
the scent of what the Japanese have done to the three eminent communists
they arrested in Vladivostok during the night of the 4th April. Comrades
Lazo, Lupkim, and Sibirtzev were the three. Regardless of the fact that our
people saw and talked to them when they were under arrest they were made to
disappear and the insolence of the Japanese went so far as to deny the fact of
the arrest.