There has been a strong demand in France for a
rupture with Moscow. This implies a despair of ever seeing payment of RuSsia's debts to France, but M. Mille- rand has already publicly supported the demand and apparently M. Poincare was not averse from it. But the Council of Ministers has decided against it, being per- Suaded, it is said, by M. Briand. It is difficult to see What will remove from Paris our old acquaintance, M. Rakowsky, so long as he himself assumes a deafness to all hints there and the SoViet Government blandly disavows his eccentricities and keeps itself within the letter of diplomatic etiquette. The Council has allowed it to be known that it favours the idea of a " pact of non-aggression " with Moscow, presumably the kind of instrument to which Russia has agreed with some of her neighbours and has sought to conclude with Poland.
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