June 22. with Russia than Britain, Tu the course of a stern lecture Mr. Churchill warned people lerd-ing money to Russia that the British Government would not accept responsibility if they were defrauded, He advised traders to get payment] or full security before despatching. goods.
Earl Birkenhead, speaking at} Luton, declared that nobody was. deceived by protestations of Moscow, that the Russian Government was. not behind the money forwarded for the alleged purpose of alleviating. the distress in the coalfields He concluded that unless we obto the miners' leaders, notably Mr. A. J. Cook, "who have not moved an inch in the past months and who defy economic laws and the advice the Government in the interests of trade and the life of the nation," the Earl of Birkenhead, in a speech before the Newspaper Society, declared: "We, who have broken down every despot' in Europe, will not be broken down by men in the domestic field who take their biddings from discredited revolutionary junta in the most miserable poverty-stricken country of Europe." served signs of change, it would be necessary to decide whether—we would "retain any degree of association with the country whose avowed purpose throughout the' world was to undermine the historic. al greatness ut Great Britain,
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