RUSSIA: Immediately

Seichas in Russian means immediately.

It is every Russian's way of saying he means to put something off till tomorrow, the next day, for ten years. Seichas seemed to have taken over the leaden-footed Anglo-Soviet pact negotiations last week as talks between British special negotiator William Strang, British Ambassador Sir William Seeds and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov dragged on day after day, added up, as far as the anxiously waiting world could see, to nothing new.

Only positive statement followed the first conversation when the official Tass News Agency, breaking diplomatic convention, announced that British proposals are "not wholly satisfactory."

As Expert Strang took no new formula to the Kremlin, was merely trying to wheedle unbudgeable Russians into entering a pact without specific British anti-aggression guarantees to reluctant Latvia, Estonia, Finland, observers thought Seichas likely to last for a long time. The more so as hard-headed Kremlin negotiators with one ear glued to the good earth hoped to make capital out of British embroilments with Japanese in China.

Triumph In Moscow the Soviet Goverment newspaper, Izvestia, proudly reported a dental triumph: three Ukrainian cows fitted with false teeth.