24 NOVEMBER 1939, Page 6

There is something cynically attractive about the story, sent by

The Times correspondent at Belgrade, of the Czecho-Slovak margarine factories which are compelled to pack their produce in paper sent from Russia and marked U.S.S.R., the idea being, I suppose, to impress the con- sumers in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany with the extent of the economic help Russia is giving to their country. It seems a pity not to go a little further and call it butter. But perhaps they do.