BRITAIN TO SEND SPECIAL ENVOY

Southland Times, Issue 23839, 9 June 1939, Page 7

BRITAIN TO SEND SPECIAL ENVOY

NEW DEVELOPMENT IN TALKS WITH SOVIET FOREIGN OFFICE EXPERT TO GO TO MOSCOW LONDON, June 7. The Prime Minister (Mr Neville Chamberlain) in the House of Commons said it had been decided to send a representative of the Foreign Office to Moscow to give the British Ambassador (Sir William Seeds) full information about the British Government’s attitude on all outstanding points. A British Official Wireless message says it is learned that Mr William Strang, head of the Central European department of the Foreign Office, will go to Moscow at an early date to give technical assistance to Sir William Seeds in the conversations with the Soviet. Sir William is for the present indisposed and is thus unable to return to London for any consultations that might “In the last exchange of views general agreement on the main objects has been attained,” said Mr Chamberlain in the House. “We have satisfied the Soviet that Britain is prepared to enter into an agreement on the basis of full reciprocity and will be ready immediately and without reserve to join France in giving Russia full military support in the event of aggression involving hostilities with a European Power.”