The Moscow correspondent of the Berliner Tageblatt has recently expressed
considerable concern at the prospect of the success of the present Anglo-Russian negotiations :— " The British plans are of such dimensions that they threaten in practice to bring about a sale monopoly for Great Britain in regard to many spheres in which we are interested. There is an actual danger that in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics we shall be crowded out by those who are able to pay something in the form of credits for the permission to supply anything. It is necessary to make it clear that we stand on the brink of losing the Russian market before we have even occupied it, and that it is of the highest importance to beware lest the natural economic connexions between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Germany are swept away in a golden stream from overflowing coffers."
We trust that if the Russians give sufficient security British finance will seize its opportunity.
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