Another document which Mr. Baldwin q uoted re q uested that telegrams should
be sent from China proving that a multitude of Chinese trade unionists had been massacred by the British at Nanking. We know the harvest of that request. In brief, Cheshann House and Soviet • House were equal partners in the unceasing anti-British propaganda and intrigue. Finally, the Prime Minister announced categorically that the Government had decided (1) to terminate the Trade Agreement with Russia, (2) to withdraw the British Mission from Russia, and (3) to demand the recall of the Soviet Mission from London. There cannot be any doubt that the Govern- . ment arc formally justified in what they have done. The. Soviet have been warned successively by Lord Curzon, by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald (in unusually vigorous language) and by Sir Austen Chamberlain. Each time they have promised reform and each time they have been false to their word. But though the Government arc justified formally they may not have been wise. We have discussed this very difficult question in our first leading article.
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