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Show GREAT BRITAItlA! RUSSIAJIGN PACT TRADE AGREEMENT APPROVED BY REPRESENTATIVES OF TWO GOVERNMENTS. Each Party Agrees to Refrain From Hostile Action or Propaganda Outside Its Borders Against tho'other's Institutions. London. Tito trade ngrcement under un-der which commercial relations will bo resumed by Great Britain nnd Bus-sla Bus-sla wns signed hero March 10 by representatives rep-resentatives of tho governments of the two countries. Tho agreement Is essentially tho same as tho draft taken to Moscow by Leonid Krassln, soviet minister of trade and commerce, In January, tho most Important terms of which fol low : Each party agrees to refrain from hostile action or propaganda outsldo Its borders against the other's institutions insti-tutions or giving nsslstanco or encouragement en-couragement to any propaganda outsldo out-sldo Its own borders. Tho soviet government gov-ernment particularly agrees to refrain from nny encouragement of Asiatic people to action against British Interests, In-terests, especially In Asia Minor, Persia, Per-sia, Afghanistan nnd India. Each agrees not to Imposo nny form of blockado against the other or any discriminations against trado not Imposed Im-posed on other foreign countries. Ships In each other's harbors shall reeelvo the treatment usually accorded accord-ed foreign merchant ships by commercial commer-cial nations. With regnid to Itusslan gold exported export-ed from Bussln as payment for Imports, Im-ports, the British government docs not concede tho bolshcvlst claim that such gold should bo regarded as lin-muni) lin-muni) from solzuro to pay British claims. The agreement leaves this as a mutter to ho settled by ordinary court procedure. In tho arrangement, tho soviet government gov-ernment is termed tho "government of the HusMnn Socialist federal soviet republic." |