Geneva. Sept. 21 "Czechoslovakia may decide today er tomorrow to take up arms in defence of her independence," declared M. Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign Commissar, in an address today before the Assembly of the League of Nations.
"The sympathies, if not of all the guyernments, at any rate of all the peoples, represented at the Assembly," he added, "go out to the Czech people in this terrible hour of trial."
This remark was greeted with cheers, mainly from the public galleries.
MI Litvinoff also told the Assembly that Russia two days ago replied to Prague that she was prepared to render "immediate effective assist-[ance" under the pacts between Soviet Russia and Czechoslovakia.
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