Moscow, Aug. 27.
The United States" Embassy was to-day ordered to reduce ite staff by lay replied to the United States' Note protesting. against resolutions and speeches ma during World Congress of the Comintern (Third Internationale) held in Moscow recently by denying that the Roosevelt-Litviney agreement had been violated.
The Soviet note said: "The note (from the United States to the USSR) contains no facts which would be regarded as a violation by the Soviet Republic of its obligations, It is undoubtedly nothing new to the United States that the Soviet Republic cannot assume and never has assumed any obligations as regards the Comintern, Simultaneously, it was learned that the British, Italian and Latvian protests to the Foreign Office against the Comintern speeches had all bet rejected by the Government as being without foundation, These representations, were, ' however, merely gestures whereas the United States protest was formal and sharp.
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