INACCURATE STATEMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 21286, 15 December 1932, Page 11

INACCURATE STATEMENTS

ARTICLE IH SOVIET PAPER EDITOR EXPRESSES REGRET (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, December 13. Captain R. A. Eden, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, informed the House of Commons of the sequel to the recent vigorous protest in regard to the allegations published in the newspaper 1 Izvestia.’ He said that the Soviet Ambassador had made oral communication to the Permanent Un-der-Secretary for Foreign Affairs to the effect, that, while - the Soviet Government took responsibility only for official communications-. in the ‘ Izvestia,’ it desired to state in regard to this particular incident that it did not entei’tain, and had not at any time entertained, the suspicions. of the Foreign Secretary and- of the Foreign Office which were expressed therein. On the contrary, it dissociated itself from such statements. The ambassador later repeated this declaration, and added that he himself had communicated with the editor of the ‘ Izvestia,’ who had now replied that he had been misled by one of his correspondents. Ho recognised tliat the statements concerned.were inaccurate, and he wished to express regret for having published ..them. In these circumstances the British Government regarded the matter as closed. ;