Russia, a well informed Eh recently said to the writer: amounts to no more than China would be willing to extend tomorrow as basis for. negotiations. We are willing to admit that there is at this moment' an administration in Moscow which rales all of Russia and can exact obedience from the Russian officials and people in the greater part of what we used to recognize og the Russian Empire. We are willing to admit that Mr. Karak. han is w representative of that central administration with full powers to negotiate with us and to believe that he has documents which prove it, Great Britain's recognition amounts to no more than such an admission. Tt is simply an essential preliminary: to negotiations which will eventually determine whether Russia is to be fully recognized -ag power capable and willing in the discharge of conventional" international relations or not,—wheto be admitted to the society of nations as a member who will, in good faih, abide by the rules which govern this 80- ciety or not. We cannot have any assurance of there things wntil we have closed certain essential preliminary negotiations with Russia's envoy any more than Great Britain can," When we have entered upon these negotintions we shall have extended recognition in precisely the same dogras that Great Britain has and Russia has agreed to go through with these negotiations" with Great Britain, thus accepting what you might all limited cognition, but Mr. Karakhan will enter arrangement with us. He wants full and unconditional recognition, only pledging himself to settle dispute later. He has—broken earlier pledges and repudiated ald promises; oe why not he question of the Ife of the Labour Government in England and the survival of its policies 15 certainly one which no one in the Orient 3s fully capable cussing. Yet under present conditions the Chinese and many others who view Russia's attitude with concern, are forced to dis. cuss these matters whether out} of blank ignorance, or out of piece-meal information, or on the basis of what might' be called political intuition, with which some Chinese seem to he partiularly, well endowed, At all events the Chinese seem to feel thnt the Labour Government in England will be short-lived and. that Russia's status wall fall with it, Peking seems to feel that the wiser the policy of the: present administration in England the more certain. its down fall. The more sandy it administers imperial affairs, the more surely will organized Jabour in Great Britain disown it. The deeper Labour representatives go into the business of government the more pledges to labour will they repudiate and the less sympathy will there he between the nominal representative and the " alleged] constituency, until a frank rejection of responsibility on both fides brings a uew election and many new policies. The Chinese believe that these developments may come in Britain before any complete Anglo-TRusstan understanding has been reached aad
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