# Toward an Understanding between France and the U.S.S.R.

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/understanding-between-france-u-s-s-r/
- Published: 1924-06-26T18:50:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-11T01:46:31+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/da-parazumiennia-francyi.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/soglasheniyu-frantsii-s-s-s-r.md

> The Paris press reports that Premier Herriot is preparing the restoration of relations with the Soviet Union. English newspapers name two variants for resolving the "Russian question."

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According to the Paris newspaper "Matin," Herriot is preparing to restore relations with the U.S.S.R. by holding consultations with circles interested in Russian affairs. Herriot, it seems, is to do the same thing that MacDonald did: he will convene a Russian-French government conference and allow the French usurers of the tsars, the financiers, to dictate through it their own terms to the Soviet republics.

English newspapers write that MacDonald's government has two projects for "resolving the Russian question"… 1. The convening of a Conference of Three, that is, of Britain, France and Russia; or 2. A preliminary understanding among the allied states themselves, and afterwards the convening of a Russian-inter-allied conference…