T consider it my duty, and, above all, after your speech, Mr." Pi Minister, to confirm speech that the Soviet Government shares the. view of the British Government that mutual non-in-internal affairs is one the creation of confidence between the two States.
The principl is for might be made in another form to make us give up the basis of our Socialist organization—the nation alization of land, the nationalization of large-scale' industry, the monopoly of foreign trade—and also to make us renounce our Soci legislation. peoples constituting the conquests of the Revolution—conquests which constitute the raison of the Soviet Government, and for which the toiling masses of the entire Union have fought against the coalition between the internal enemy foreign ernments. With that frankness ions, I must remind you, Mr. Prime Minister, that former British Governments also took part ign intervention in Russia. You if and your party, Mr. Prime stuggied against that intervention, and it need not occasion surprise that the sentiments provoked amongst our working people by that intervention still subsist to acertain degree But we have met here for the purpose of dissipating these sentiments, of creating new relations of confidence, and, by liquidating the past, to banish this residue of distrust, replacing it by the most friendly relations.
Before entering on the labours of our Conference, the Soviet Delegation has thought it desirable to raise in the first instance, with a view to their immediate solution, all political and economic questions which present an equal interest for both countries, and which, by their very nature, need no preliminary detailed investigation. In this way our Conference might in the shortest time yield results which,
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