BRITISH SYMPATHY
LITHUANIAN SITUATION
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, March 27,
The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, told the House of Commons that the British Government had now been informed officially by the Lithuanian Government of the cession of Memelland to Germany. On receiving this communication, the British Government had expressed to the Lithuanian Government its sympathy in the situation in which it had been placed.
Mr. Butler added that, as in last December and on March 16, the British Government had, made it clear, in reply to inquiries addressed to it as a signatory of the Memel Convention by the Lithuanian Government that Britain could only endeavour to secure respect for the Memel Statute in so far as this lay in her power. It was understandable, in the circumstances, that the Lithuanian Government had acted in signing the treaty with Germany on the evening of March 22 without consulting the signatory Powers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 74, 29 March 1939, Page 11
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