The Observer last Sunday published an interview with M. Teltitcherin
-who said that though the Soviet . Government was quite ready. to come to an arrangement with Great Britain, Russia was emphatically not prepared to enter the League. The League, he said, Was not " as at present constituted " a- real instrument for peace. As for the Locarno Treaty he was sceptical about that too. " It is a beginning," he admitted—but a beginning of what ? He added that time alone could show what Great. Britain. and • France meant by LOcarno ; he could only say that he was sceptical. When asked about dis- armament he pointed out that after the War Russia was the first nation to advocate disarmament if " general disarmament " - could be arranged. We fear that 31. Rykoff's speech of long ago does not help us now. The Soviet has had plenty of invitations to discuss dis- armament since then and to take the best means of doing so, which is discussion within the League of Nations. But the Soviet has refused. It is now being asked once more by the League of Nations. * * * *
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