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Show OLD RUSS DEBT BLOCKS WSiTY H Cannot Recognize Soviets Till rObligations of Czar Are HI Assumed by Reds H PARIS, June 25. Premier MUlcr- H and replying to .111 interpretation in H the chamber of deputies today said thai the resumption of political rc- H lations between France and Russia H was a matter clearly depending upon B llio Soviet's H "When the Soviet government rca- B Iizcs.that the first duty of a govcrn- H mont worthy the nanio is to assunio fc; responsibility for the international cn- 9i pagement3 of the former Russian gov- T' ernment;" said the premier, "then we H can. talk with them-, until then we H can have nothing to do with a govern- H mont which Is in reality no govern- "Wo cannot deal with a so-called PPBBJ government, which, while apparently J attempting to enter Into negotiations B wjth another government, sends at the H samo time a message to the British H uprlcmcn inviting them to .start a rcv- olution against that government." HJ Concerning the league of nations.! PH M. Millcrand declared that all the cf- XH forts of the Fronch government were &PHj aimed at making a reality of that in- SH alitntlon. KM "While the premier spoke as forcibly .'HH ns on occasions regarding the rofump- rU "on oC Political relations with Russia, fcflH asserting, that France would not de- j-flH vlato from the course outlined on Feb. ifSBVH ruary 1Q, 'shortly after he had assumed vWdBH the leadership of the government, the S9HH inference from his speech in political cfyflflU circles is that recognition of the Soviet rljaHH government depends only upon that flSI , government's assumption of rcsponsi- Epl 'blllty for the Russian foreign debt and ISiH the cessation of Bolshevik! propa- tVgH ganda. |