Sir Stafford Cripps, who will act as special envoy in
Moscow to discuss a trade agreement with Russia if the Soviet Govern- ment agrees, returned about a month ago from a world tour of 45,000 miles, 32,000 of them by air, in the course of which he interviewed the directors of the foreign policy of countries numbering some 1,350,000,00o persons—among them the directors of the foreign policy of Soviet Russia. Sir Stafford is a convinced believer (more convinced, no doubt, than some members of the Government he is now representing) of the necessity for friendship with Russia, and in particular of the prosecution of a policy parallel with hers in China. As the representative of a Government in which Labour is playing so prominent a part, and as an undisguised sympathiser with Russia's general aspirations, Sir Stafford ought to be persona grata in Moscow, if any Englishman can be.
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