News of the Week Great Britain and the Soviet.
THE most interesting event of the week has been the arrangement between Mr. Henderson and M. Dovgalevsky, the Soviet Ambassador in Paris, for the restoration of Anglo-Ruisian relations. In form Mr. Henderson seems to have yielded a great deal in order to make the arrangement possible, but it will probably be found that in substance he has yielded nothing of any moment. Two months ago the Government declared that a discussion of all the Ang1O-Russian points of controversy was an essential preliminary to the exchange of -Ambassadors. M. Dovgalevsky then left London in a huff, and the Soviet Government complained that he had been enticed to London only to be made a fool- of. On Tuesday, however, Mr. Henderson so far modified the " essential preliminary " as to approve of an exchange of Ambassa dors before all..the. controversial points are tackled. But it must be noted that there is one very important excep- tion. Mr.- Henderson obtained from M. Dovgalivsky concurrently with the understanding about the exchange of Ambassadors a pledge that Soviet propaganda in the British CoMmonwealth should not be renewed.
