In the Note which, as representative of the: Soviet Union, T had the honour to present to the British Government in reply to their Note jon de jure recognition, my Gove: ment expressed its readiness to solve amicably all questions of an economic and political nature outstanding between the two countries and to re-examine all treaties which have been concluded in the past be-the" Socialist constitution of our State, which is based on the absolute equality of nations and the recognition of their right of self Other reasons, too, make the re-tum to the old policy an impossibility.
The war has awakened national consciousness in the peoples of the East, and any attempt on our part to obstruct that "legitimate _¢on-sciousness would be not puly a rime against our own. interests, but also a piece of folly, seeing that in the long run such policy must inevitably fail. In. consequence, in far as the British and Soviet Governments adopt as a starting point the principle of respecting the {independence and sovereignty of the Cricital States, we shalt be tree from difficulty in settling all questions pertaining to the interests of Great Britain and the Soviet Union in the Eas
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