London, Oct. 12.
The Soviet Ambassador, M. Ivan Maisky, called on Lord Halifax, ish Foreign Secretary, yesterday d protested against an alleged atement by Earl Winterton, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, that Russia did not offer help to Czechoslovakia in the crisis but "only made ery vague promises owing to her military weakness."
A statement issued by the Soviet Embassy describes Earl Winterton's statement as "a perversion of the actual position of the Soviet, which was explicitly stated by M. Litvinoff (Soviet Foreign Commissar) at Geneva on September 21, when M. Litvinoff recapitulated his conversa-ton with the French Charge d'Affaires in Moscow on September 2 in which he declared that the Soviet intended to fulfil all her obligations under the Soviet-Czech pact and. together with France, would afford assistance to Czechoslovakia.
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