Soviet Hesitating over Socony's Proposal to buy full Output Paris, Feb. 4.
Lo Petit Parisien" publishes. an account of an interview by: Hix Mose cow correspondent with Comrade Rykoff, the President of the Council of Commissurs, who is reported to have stated that the Standard Oil Company had proposed to the Soviet that it should buy the entire output fof oil from the Caucasus ov peried of three to five years. Com: rade Rykoff added that the Soviet had not yet accepted thix offer, it being contrary to Russian interests jerease American economic in-
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