Particularly did they make it plain that it was no part of their intention that the Soviet Government should commit themselves to intervene, irre pective of whether Great Britain or France had already, in the discharge of their obligations, done so.
The British Government had made it clear that if the Soviet Government wished to make their own intervention contingent upon that of Britain and France, the British Government would raise no objections.
Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, had yesterday interviewed M. Ivan Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador in London, who explained to him that the Soviet Government was still not clear whether, under the British Government's proposals, the circumstances might not arise in which the Soviet Government would be committed to intervention unsupported either by Great Britain or by France.
Lord Halifax had assured M. Maisky that this definitely was not the intention of the proposals made by the British Government, and that if there were any room for doubt on this point, Lord Halifax anticipated that it could, without difficulty, be removed.
had accordingly invited M. Maisky to place the British Government in possession of the precise grounds on which these doubts were based, if they still existed, and this M. Maisky had readily agreed to do.
Mr. Chamberlain added that Sir William Seeds, the British Ambassador in Moscow, had had an infer-view two days ago with M. Molotov, President of the Council of Commissars and concurrently Soviet Foreign Commissar, at the conclusion of which M. Molotov promised to give careful consideration to the British proposals.
The Government was now awaiting a reply.—Reuter.
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