London, May 23, Britain opened a diplomatic offend sive to improve relations with the Soviet Union, Italy and other neutrals as M, Ivan Maisky, Soviet Ambassador to London, delivered the Russian reply to the latest British note on trade negotiations to Lord Foreign Secretary, today.
Despite the brusque tone of the Soviet reply, it was understood that it did not close the door to an improvement in the negotiations, In fact, it was expected by well-informed circles that the negotiations would begin in earnest shortly and there was a possibility of their culminating in the visit of prominent Briton to Moscow.
Sir Wilfred Greene, chairman of the British delegation to the Anglo-Ttalian committee on trade and blockade problems, has returned to Rome in an attempt to reopen talks and eliminate some of Italy's grievances regarding contraband control.
Political quarters also expected that Britain would make a gesture to int prove rélatigns with Spain where the Axis Powers were re ported' to be working hard building up sentiment against the Allies—United Press,
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