Anglo-Russian

Sometime ago, Great Britain negotiated a trade agreement with Soviet Russia but withheld recognition. The whole arrangement proved unsatisfactory.

The British Government has now recognized Sovietland, and in London, Bolshies and Laborites are in daily con-ference--when the Soviet delegates can be induced to give up seeing London from the bus-tops--trying to straighten out their economic and financial rela- tions.

The opening sessions of the conference were marked with much plain speaking from Premier Ramsay Mac-Donald. Old Tsarist Treaties were relegated to subcommittees for inspection, but no important decisions were or could be arrived at. Cessation of Bolshevik propaganda and recognition of debts and private property by the Soviet: Government were the chief items on the agenda.