APOLOGISES, London, Dee, Captain Anthony Eden, the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, told the House of Commons to-day the sequel to the recent vigorous protest which Sir John Simon, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, had' made to the Soviet Government regarding allegations published in the "Izvestia."
Captain Eden said the Soviet Ambassador had made an oral com: munication to the permanent Underretary. for Foreign Affairs, to the "effect that while the Soviet jovernment only took the responibility for oficial communications in the "Iavestia," they desired to state that with regard to this pai cular incident they did not entertain and. had not at. time entertained [suspicions of the Foreign Secretary Jand of the Foreign whicl were epntained in the article the contrary, he said, they dissociated "themselves from' ssu statements The Ambassador later declaration and added had, communicated now replied that he had been misled one' of his correspondents, that he recognised the statements in question. were inaccurate, and that he wished to express. his regret for having published them, in these reumstances the British govern ment regarded the matter as clos The "article in question alleged that the British Foreign, Ofice instructed its agents to forge docu rents against the Soviet.—Hteuter.
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