Paris, May 10.
Increased Soviet-Polish ce-operation will diminish threats to the Baltic States, which is one of the aims of Anglo-French negotiations with the U.S.S.R., French authoritative quarters declared today in comments on the Warsaw visit just concluded by M. Vladimir Potemkin, Soviet First Vice-Commissar for Foreign Affairs.
The Soviets objected to the latest British proposals because they claimed that these plans did not completely cope with the possibility of an Eastern European conflict, in- which Russia would be involved without British and French assistance, the same quarters explained.
The Baltic states, referred to by Moscow in these objections, remain the sore point in discussions for European peace bloc, they stated. They pointed out that British and French guarantees cover cases of aggression against Poland and Rumania and that M. Potemkin's parleys in Ankara coped with any eventual conflict launched form the South.
The Baltic States are of especial importance in the European scheme of things today,-prench quarters added. In the event-of a German attack against Poland, the Folish Corridor—hemmed in by German forces on the east and west—could hardly be defended and resistance would therefore have to be organized to the east of East Prussia, in Lithuania.
Lithuania, however, is not covered by existent' Anglo-French guarantees of security and the problem of the Baltic states' integrity and co-opera tion in the event of war, is held to be the most important.
"Moscow is especially anxious to obtain direct Anglo-French assurances to cover this case and negotiations
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