The Archive · 1938

Soviet Criticism

Moscow. Mar. 26.

The official organ of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union, "Izvestia," to-day bitterly assailed British foreign policy (ps capitulation before the forces of war."

The newspaper said the British Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, "apparently wants to delay the struggle against the forces of war until he considers the British rear-moment programme completed, but the aggressor nations do not intend to wait for this moment."

"Mr. Chamberlain," the paper said, "knows this better than anyone." The paper said Mr. Chamberlain's reject tion of the Soviet plan for a conference against aggressor nations also "represents a capitulation to dictators." 4

The paper said Mr. Chamberlain acknowledged in his recent foreign policy statement before the House of Commons that Europe was on the eve of a German war against Czechoslovakian independence into which France inevitably. would be drawn.

"Mr.. Chamberlain proposes to leave Czechoslovakia to the aggressor and deprive France of British support" the paper declared.—United Press.

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