The Russian Commissar for Foreign Affairs left Moscow last week
to seek medical advice in Central Europe. He broke his journey at Warsaw where banquets and the toasting of a foreign representative in the old capitalist style seem to have done no harm to his health as he proceeded to Berlin for some days of activity there. Poland received him with official enthusiasm though she must feel, " Timeo Seythos et dona ,ferentes." His objects in flattering the Poles and catching the German delegates on the eve of their journey to Locarno were hardly obscure. Apart from such details as capital credits and a trade treaty, Moscow wants Poland and Germany to lOok eastward, not westward. M. Chicherin seems to have played on such fears of Great Britain as he could arouse and on Germany's natural hesitation over Article XVI. of the Covenant of the League. While European friend- ships and stability seem to us to grow with terrible slowness, to Moscow they seem to be steadily .cutting away the ground on which she would advance in her destructive career. Outside Moscow the world looks to Locarno for benefits that can do no good to the Muscovite rulers.
