Geneva, Dec, 8.
'A statement explaining' the scope of the Franco-Soviet agreement, signed in Geneva on December 5, was issued yesterday during a press interview by M. Maxim Litvinof, Soviet Foreign Commissar and del ate to the League of Nations, "The accord," M. Litvinoff said, "is, above all, proof of the constant' and invariable orientation of the Governments of France and USSR. toward a mutual rapprochement and international ce-operation in the interests of peace."
Speaking of USSR's policy towards Germany, M. Litvinoff said, "The Soviet Union always wished. for the best of relations with the Reich. The eastern pact would permit of establishing friendly reletions among France, Germany and USSR, as well as among other signatories of the planned pact and would bring about an a in the international situation, 50 much desired by Europe.
"The accord signed in Geneva," he concluded, "concerns measures, which, f6F instance the solution reached in the Saar question, have only one alm—the safeguarding of A new German 6,000-ton cruiser was launched at Kiel on Dee. 8.
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