Moscow, Aug, 30.
In the event of a Czecho-German armed conflict, France would probably assist the Czechs and Soviet Russia would then follow France, the Soviet Foreign Commissar, M. Maxim Litvinov, told the German Ambassador here in a recent private conversation, it was confirmed today, The Reich's envoy, Council Friedrich von der Schulenburg, approached M, Litvinov on August' 22, it was reaffirmed today, and asked him privately what would be the Soviet attitude. Upon hearing the Russian statesman's reply, he added that "the dangerous attitude of some Czech military elements could compel Germany to intervene and the Reich could not then be accused of unprovoked aggression.
All this took place in a private conversation between M, Livitnoy and Count von der Schulenburg, it is stressed.—Havas,
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