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Show Russia Holds Fate Of Conference in Hand GENOA, May (Ry V. P.) Soviet Russia today held the fate of Genoa In lta hand. Rejection by Russia of the allied note would mean the end of the economic conference, observers ob-servers agreed. Conditional acceptance would embarrass em-barrass the divided allies almost as much. Everything, Lloyd George declared, depended upon the soviet reply, and, knowing their advantage, the Russians Rus-sians took their time about replying. The British premier made this statement In a conversation with Louis Barthou, head of the French delegation. Barthou brought back with him an o it line of the French position, aa determined by his conference with Poincare and the cabinet at Paris. It wr. twofold: 1. I'ranre would agree, he said, to the allied note to Russia, If Belgium would. 2. France would ajgn the non-aggresslon non-aggresslon pat modified by Benes of Czechoslovak la If the rights of the Versailles treaty were protected. Barthou suggested this left the next move at Genoa to Belgium. But j Lloyd George decided otherwise. "I've sent our note to the Russians without the French and Belgium signatures. We must stand by It. The conference now watts on the soviet reply." |