London, July 6.
"Inconveniences" created by increased Soviet demands each time British proposals came nearer to the original Soviet scheme were understood to have been stressed by the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, when he received the Soviet Ambassador, M. Ivan Maiski, this afternoon. It was also learned that Lord Halifax repeated Britain's determination to continue efforts to reach a eneral agreement with Soviet russia, Diplomatic quarters said tonight that Britain would probably re-Bounce her plan of obtaining Soviet guarantees for Switzerland, the Netherlands and the little duchy of Luxembourg. In return, she would ask Moscow not to extend "too far" the meaning of the word "aggression" in the eventual accord.
The USS.R. wishes to apply this term to amy changes in the internal regimes of the guaranteed States.
Soviet quarters here stressed that the Czechoslovakian affair in March this year proved the success of disguised aggression, which includes no open attack. Such a threat must be envisaged in the case of the Baltic nations and in fact, the danger of disguised aggression was greater than that of open attack, they concluded,
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