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part of England, and the tendency
towards continuation of pacific rela-
tions, urged by number of other
capitalist countries, is the fundamen-
tai fact of our foreign relations at
the present moment.
The facts characterizing Che ten
dency of pacific relations in the
period under review are as follows:
The treaty of non-aggression with
| Turkey, the guarantee agreement with
| Germany, the customs agreement
with Greece, the credit agreement with
Germany, the recognition by Uru-
quay, the guarantee compact with AT
ghanistan, the guarantee compact
with Lithuania, the draft of the guar
antee compact with Latvia, the COM
mercial treaty with Turkey, the set
Element of the conflict with Switzer-
land, the treaty of neutrality with
Persia, the Improvement in the rela-
tions to Japan, and the growth in
economic relations with the United
States and Italy.
The facts characterizing the ten
dency towards a policy of bellicose
aggression in the period under re-
view where the British note in con-
nection with the financial support of
the locked out miners, the assaults in
Picking, Tientsin and Shanghai, the
raid on the ARGOS, the rupture of rela-
tions by the British government with
the Soviet Union, the murder of Com
rade Voykov, the terrorist action of
British hirelings in the Soviet Union,
and the aggravation of the relations
with France in regard to the recall
of Rakovsky.
If year or two ago there was
talk of period of relative equilibri-
UNI and of peaceful co-existence" of
the Soviet Union on the one hand
and the imperialist countries on the
other, we have now every reason to
affirm that the period of peaceful CO.
existence is passed, giving place to
period of imperialist attacks and the
preparation of Intervention against
Soviets.
The attempts of Great Britain to
set up a united front against the So
Wet Union have hitherto failed, and
that for the following reasons: The
contradiction of interests in the camp
of the capitalists, the interest of GER
tain countries in economic relations
with the Soviet Union, the peace pol
icy of the Soviet Union, the resistance
of the working class of Europe, and
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break of revolution at home in the
event of a war against the Soviet
Union. This does not mean, however,
that Great Britain has abandoned its
work of organizing the united front
against the Soviet Union or that it
will not succeed in bringing this front
about. The danger of war remains
in spite of a temporary failure on the
part of Great Britain
Therefore it is our task to keep our
eye on the differences in the camp
of the imperialists, to delay the war,
ransom ourselves from the capitalists
and to take all steps towards main
tanning peaceful relations. We must
not forget the words of Lenin to the
effect that very much in our work of
construction depends on whether we
succeed in delaying the inevitable war
with the capitalist world either until
the moment when the proletarian
revolution in Europe has become ripe
or else until the revolution in the
colonial countries is so far advanced,
or else again until the time when the
capitalists begin to fight against one
another over the distribution of the
colonies. Therefore the maintenance
Of peaceful relations with the capital
ist countries is matter of the utmost
necessity for us.
The foundations of our relations
with the capitalist countries consist
in the sufferance of the co-existence
OF two antagonistic systems. This
has succeeded very well in practice,
though the questions of debt and
credit are at times a stumbling block
Our policy in this regard is very sim
pie, being expressed by the formula
If you give, 1 give too" If you give
credits to @ructify our industry you
will get back certain proportion of
the pre-war debts, which we look
upon as extra interest on loans. If
you give nothing, you get nothing.
These facts show that in regard to
the acquisition of industrial credits
something has been attained. | am
not thinking only of Germany but
also of the United States and Great
Britain. The secret lies in the fact
that our country is the greatest mar
ket for the import of industrial ac-
cessories and equipments, form of
market of which the capitalist coun-
tries are greatly in need.