Thank heavens! Yesterday, in Moscow, an agreement was signed between Glavkontsesskom (Comrade Trifonov)

Valentin Andreevich Trifonov, chairman of the Central Concession Committee of the Soviet government, 1930–37.

and Lena Goldfields (Marshall)

The representative of the stockholders of Lena Goldfields.

to annul an old dispute that dated back to 1930. When I think of the bother this case has given me! All this time it has been a thorn in the side of Anglo-Soviet relations! A major impediment to the improvement of these relations has been removed; the path for further steps toward rapprochement (insofar as this is possible) has been cleared…