Evening star., 1941-01-11
More Trade Pacts
To Be Made in 1941,
Russia Announces
Both Bellieerent and
Non n-BeIIigerent Stotes
Will Be Included
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Jan. 1.-THE newspa-
per Izvestia, organ of the Soviet
Russian government, followed up
disclosure of new trade and friend
ship pacts with Germany by an
| nouncing today that Russia intends
to conclude in 1941 other economic
treaties and agreements with other
states, both belligerent and non-bel-
ligerent."
The other states were not named.
1zvestia introduced this forecast in
attempting to demonstrate that Rus
Sla'S policies show no favoritiSm so
long as her frontiers and interests
are not actively threatened.
Attempts made by the press hos
tile to the Soviet Union to prove that
any agreement concluded between
the U. S. S. r. and Germany is di-
rected against third powers cannot
stand" Izvestia declared.
1T is time it was understood that
the Soviet Union, as non-belliger-
ent power, follows its own independ-
ent policy and will continue to fol-
low it regardless OF what statesmen
OF the Eastern and Western Hemi-
spheres may think of this.
Cites Stains Statements.
Izvestia cited as the basis of Rus
sia's foreign policy Joseph Stains
statements of March, 1899, at a Con-
gress of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union in which he listed
these points:
81. We stand for peace and
strengthening of business relations
with all countries. That is our posi-
ton, and we shall adhere to this
position as long as these countries
maintain like relations with the
Soviet Union and as long as they
make no attempt to trespass on the
interests of our country.
q. We stand for close and friendly
relations with all neighboring coun-
tries which have common frontiers
with the U. S. S. r. That is our
position and we shall adhere to this
| position as long as these countries
maintain like relations with the
Soviet Union and as long as they
make no attempt to trespass directly
or indirectly on the integrity and in
volatility of the frontiers of the
Soviet State"
A Russian communique on the
five agreements signed yesterday at
the Kremlin declared last night that
all economic problems" between the
countries had been settled. Tass,
! official Soviet news agency, added
that the pacts were negotiated in
the spirit of mutual understanding
and confidence conforming to the
friendly relations existing between
the U. S. S. r. and Germany"
Besides broadening trade rela-
tions between the countries, the
agreements were said to have fixed
mutual boundaries in newly acquired
territories and settled resulting re-
patriation problems.
(The signing of the pacts fol-
lowed weeks of increasing tension
in the Balkans, where the mass
ing OF troops and reports of dis
agreements over control of the
mouths Of the Danube have given
rise to speculation that German
Russian relations might be badly
strained)
Repatriation Agreements.
To carry out the repatriation
process, expected to be completed in
rs days. simultaneous agreements
were signed in Riga. Latvia and
Kaunas, Lithuania. to cover the
Baltic states absorbed by Russia.
In this process 10000 Germans
were expected to return to the Reich
from Lithuania and 10000 from
Latvia and Estonia. Russians liv-
ing in German Memelland north
eastern tip of German East Prussia
and the Suwalki district of German
occupied Poland also will return to
their homeland
Provision was made for settle
ments between Russia and Germany
for property owned by their ma
tionals in territory taken over.
Under the trade agreement, Rus
sia promised to send Germany
/ wheat. oil, cotton, fax, manganese
and other raw materials in return
for German industrial machinery.
Uniformed sources in Buenos
Aires reported last night that a
Soviet trade mission was en- route
to Argentina to make large wheat
purchases. and some sources said
Russia might be planning to
trans-ship Argentine wheat to
Germany to help fill the new
trade pledges)
The total turnover, Russian
sources said. would exceed by far
that of the past year under the trade
pact Of last February II.
The agreement signed yesterday
runs until August !, 1912.
The government newspaper lives
tia, in an editorial headed De
velopment of Friendly Soviet-Ger-
man Relations" commented that:
Economic relations between the
U. S. S. r. and Germany form
above all of a most effective means
of strengthening peace and friend
ship between the U. S. S. r. and
Germany-the two mightiest pow
ers in Europe. Experience has
shown that there is sufficient mu-
tual understanding and trust be-
tween the U. S. S. R. and Germany
to solve in the interests of both
parties a number of the most in
volved economic and financial prob
lens"
The editorial added:
There are in Britain and the
United States some leading states
men who believe that the United
States, in full conformity with in
ternational law and its position
on neutrality, may sell to Britain
everything, including even war
ships, whereas the Soviet Union
cannot sell to Germany even cereals
without violating the policy of
peace.
These strange contentious pro-
vide curious example of juggling
with international law"
Soviet Mission Reported