"COMPLETE PERVERSION"
SOVIET LODGES PROTEST
(Received October 12, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 11.
The Soviet Ambassador, M. Maisky, called on the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, and protested against Earl Winterton's speech. The Russian Embassy issued a statement that the „
speech was a "complete perversion of the actual position" as" stated by M. Litvinov at Geneva on September 21.
A cablegram received from Genevai on September 22 stated: —"Czechslo vakia may decide today or tomorrow to take up arms in defence of her independence," declared M. Litvinov, Soviet Foreign Minister, in addressing the League Assembly. "The sympathies of all the peoples represented at the Assembly go out to the Czechs in their terrible hour of trial. (This sentence was greeted with cheers, mainly from the public galleries.) We intend to fulfil our obligations under the pact to afford assistance to Czechoslovakia, together with France, by ways open to us," said M. Litvinov. "Our War Department is ready immediately to participate in a confer. ence with representatives of the French and Czech War Departments to discuss measures appropriate to the moment." * ■ > -
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 89, 12 October 1938, Page 10
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