Seen; "Manufacture and Carry" Burden on Reich London, Feb. 13.
Only time will tell whether the newly-signed Soviet-German trade accords will prove of any great benefit to the Reich and whether Sovie! German economic ce-operation will actually bear fruit, British observers commented today. Giving Allied views on the agreement, which nomina ally provides for trade exchanges to a total value of £83,000000, they declared that the real amount of deliveries in the long run will depend to a great extent on transport facilities.
At present, transport facilities have been most scarce and Russian deliveries have failed by a great margin to come up to German expectations. Moreover, an important factor is the high cost of transportation, for prices are prohibitive because of the lack of facilities. Politically, all obstacles seem to have been removed, the same observers declared, It appears as though Moscow would like to "show the Allies the consequences of their anti-Soviet policies."
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