New Russo-Indian trade agreement

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144 Reports in the Press indicate that Russia and India are to'sign a new trade treaty involving the exchange of goods worth 1,000 million rupees (about £75 million), This nows was first released in Calcutta by’ the Soviet Minister of Foreign Trade on February the 4th, during negotiat— ions on this subject. This, when cq led with the supply by the Soviet Union of Mig fighters to India is a cuntimmed example of the hostility of the Russian bureaucracy to the Chinese. The actual content of the trade has not been specified, tut it is wath noting that on the same day as the above announcement, Nehru said that talks were still going on to obtain arms from external sources, He also announced Indias preparedness for a renewal of fighting in the spring against what he called the Chinese "contim ing menace™,