Proposals for Pact Misunderstood in Moscow, Says Prime Minister in House of Commons London, May 10.
T: scheme put forward by the Soviet in the course of the Anglo-Soviet negotiations "must, in the view of the British Government, inevitably raise the very difficulties which their own proposals had been designed to avoid," declared Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, in a mons this afternoon. statement in the House of Com-
A crowded House heard the Premier make his eagerly-awaited statement on the progress of the Anglo-Soviet negotiations. At the outset of his speech, Mr. Chamberlain referred to the statement issüed in Moscow regarding the British Government's proposals. He said that this statement seemed to be based on a misunderstanding of the suggestions actually put forward by the British Government.
Conversations were still in progress, and the House therefore^would not expect him to discuss these matters.
He thought it right, in view of the Moscow statement, to place the House in possession of the general line on Which the conversations hitherto had proceeded.
The Government hesitantly accepted definite obligations with respect to certain Eastern European States, in Pursuance of their declared policy of attempt, if such were made, to feat. assisting those States to resist any
their independence.
The Government undertook those obligations without inviting the Soviet Government to participate directly in them, in view of certain difficulties to which any such suggestion would inevitably give rise.
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