Britain to remove the embargo laced on trade with Russia. honoured as aldivergence of view over this settlement than lover the action which the British Foreign Office took in a vain attempt to coerce Russia into abandonment of what admitted to hay }Some have felt that if the British authorities had been less prejcipitate in imposing the embargo, Mr. Thornton and Mr. Macdonald would have been released long' before now. Here again evid is offered to support the view. that economic sanctions have by, no means the compelling influence attributed to them by some writers. Yet it seems clear from the remarkable articles in "The Times" which last month Jdispassionately examined the proceedings at the trial of the British engineers, that the resolute attitude of the British Government had a marked effect. The Russian authorities were put on their mettle. They did everything thes could to convert the tribunal's procedure into some sort of resemblance to a Jjudicial investigation. They were not basically successful for the whole conception of the drama in which the engineers were called upon to play the parts of self-confessed spies was fantastically inconsistent with the facts. It is however reason-fable to suggest that the abandon.
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