The Archive · 1939

Badly Received

Moscow, May 10.

The communique issued after the Stockholm Scandinavian nations conference on May 9 was greeted heve without enthusiasm today. At the same time, however, there was no recrimination.

According to information received here, the Stockholm communique was meant to proclaim not only political and military neutrality, but also economic neutrality. The policy of complete neutrality would affect all transport facilities extended to the Reich and Soviet Russia in the event of a war between these two powers. Nevertheless, the northern lands would do their utmost to accord equal treatment to the two powers in the field of goods transit and the supply of raw materials and minerals.

Russia would therefore retain at German Plane Crashes In France

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