Admission of Weakness Offset by Defiance of Imperialists Leningrad, Oct. 1
The meeting of the Centrat Executive Committee of the Soviet Republic was continued to-day, Comrade Rykoff, the President of the Council of People's Commissar-ina speech lasting two hours, dealing with the international and internal situation of the Republic, declared that the Soviet formerly when Weak offered to buy off Impevialistie countries in order to gain a breathing-space but they were now stronger and no longer wished to pay as they had offer ed to do at Genoa and the Hague. "The stronger we are and the les we depend upon capitalistic countries," he went on," "the less we will pay them." The Governments of certain capitalist countries, he asserted, would attempt an' armed struggle with the Soviet, but war against the Soviet would only hasten the beginning of a social revolution in other countries, IMPERIAL CHEMICAL,
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