Mr. George Lansbury, Labour Leader and Editor of the London "Daily Herald," despatched the following telegram from Moscow on February 9:—Arrived here to-day. The churches are all open, and people going in and out. The magnificent shrine in the Kremlin was being visited as of old. All classes ars in the streets. All suffer hanger, cold and sickness, due entirely to civil war, aided by foreign gold and arms.
The whole nation needs peace. Organized labour in Britain and America must secure for the work. ers here a chance to reorganize their society There is great hope, great faith end idealism, but all here want to know if the Allies will now Jeave Russia free to work out er own salvation. Everybody I have spoken to would welcome cur honest ce-operation. The feeling is that we all need each other, I never mgt people so determined to win their fight for economic freedom, interviewed Tehicherin, who wid the Russian ce-operative societies were willing and anxious for trade, and had_ appointed Litvinofi their agent. They would send delegates from Hassle to-act with him. Russia, he said, must be allowed to determine what she will buy and sell. The ce-operative societies are part of the Constitution; in fact, are distributive Gast ancona Nees every Russian endes for the Soviet Government.
citizen is de facto a member of the Ca-operative Society.
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