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Again British Tories demanded that diplomatic relations with the U. S. S. R. be broken off. The House of Commons cheered when it heard that the British Government had suspended negotiations for a new Anglo-Russian trade treaty. It appeared likely that this might scare the Soviets into calling off the trial, which had perhaps been planned anyway to quiet the resentment of plain Soviet citizens at the innumerable privileges—maximum food rations, special living quarters, freedom from eternal standing in line—which foreign technical experts in Russia have so long enjoyed.