The Archive · 1938

British Envoy Returns To Warsaw

Polish Government Stand In Czech Issue Sounded

Warsaw, Sept. 1. With instructions to inform the Polish Government of Britain's views on the Czech situation, Sir Howard William Kennard, British Ambassador to Poland, returned here today after a month's holiday spent i England.

Sir Howard is to report to the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, on Poland's attitude towards the Czech problem, it is declared in usually well-informed quarters.

Colonel Joseph Beck, Polish Foreign Minister, recently received the British Charge d'Affaires here, Mr. Clifford Norton, and the German Ambassador, Herr Hans Adolf von Moltke, and discussed Czech issues with them, it is now reported.

The newspaper "Goniec Warzawski" claims in London despatches that Lord Halifax has- informed the Polish Charge d'Affaires, M. A. Jazdzewski, that the Polish minorities in Czechoslovakia would be given advantages similar to those eventually granted the other national groups, Equal rights for Polish minorities always formed the fundamental claim of the Polish Goyernment—Havas, U.S. Sympathies with Britain, France Washington, Sept. 1 The sympathies of the United States are entirely with France and Great Britain in the present crisis, a high official of the U.S. Gover: nent declared unofficially today. He added that the United States would support the Western democracies in the event of a conflict, though not by sending troops or granting financial loans, which are banned by the Johnson Act.—Havas,

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