London, Apr. 2.
My, Menderson, the Foreigi Secretary, was asked in the Ho of Commons to-day whether he had: yet urged upon the Soviet Am-Bassndor the rights of British @laimants upon the Soviet Govern-gent, and had pressed for the recognition and settlement of the Aebts due to them, Mr, Hugh Dalton, the Under-Secretary of State ' for Foreign Affairs, replied in the affirm:
said the object of the negoti tions now proceeding was to agree upon suitable machinery for the consideration of the claims. It was hoped that the present stage of the Jhegotiations would be completed Ihefore Easter and that he would be able to make a statement—Wireless Borough Reuter,
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