Some time must pass before it will be possible to
estimate the results of the break with Russia. If the interesting information published in the Westminster Gazette of Wednesday is correct the immediate effect of the break has been not a reinforcement of the power of the extremists but increased vitality among the moderates. The writer in the Westminster Gazette says that the struggle between the moderate party headed by Stalin and the extremist opposition of Trotsky and Zinovieff has become intensified, but that the moderates are getting the upper hand. In the first flush of excitement, we are told, it seemed that a policy of economic reprisals against Great Britain would be launched. It :was proposed that trading operations should be transferred from Great Britain to Germany and that there should be increased propaganda everywhere against the Empire.
