"DELICATE TASK."
ENVOYS IN RUSSIA.
Treatment Of French Minister In Moscow. REPORTS FLATLY DENIED. (United P.A.-Electric Telegraph-Copyright) PARIS, December 26. Sensational stories were published in certain organs of the French Nationalist party to the effect that the French Ambassador at Moscow, M Herbotte, had broken off relations with M. Litvinoff, Acting-Foreign Commissar : and was about to return to Paris These are flatly denied in official quarters. The incident, if it can be described as such, is said to have resulted from the French Envoy's effort to deliver to the Soviet a communication from Rumania regarding the conflict between Russia and China in Manchuria. According to accounts which bave reached Paris, M. Litvinoff informed M. Herbette that ho would not even accept a Note from a "third-rate Power." The "Temps" last evening, reflecting the view of the French Foreign Office, .-ays: "What it would be well to bear in mind is that with a Government, such as that at Moscow it is a singukrly delicate and ungrateful task to attempt to perform good offices, whether as a simple intermediary or in conformity ,vith pure international courtesy."
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 306, 27 December 1929, Page 7
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