Moscow, May 21.
No significance is attached in Soviet circles here to the fact that M. dH Potemkin, Soviet Vice-Commissar for Affairs, is not going top Geneva for talks with Lord Halifax, British Foreign Secretary and M. Georges Bonnet, French Foreign EH "The fact has never been announced here, and it is pointed out that M. Potemkin enjoys no more policy-making authority than M. Ivan Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador in London, who will represent Russia at Geneva.
"The silence of Soviet officials and the Russian press concerning the statement by Mr. Neville Chamber-Jain, British Prime Minister, in the House of Commons on Friday on the Anglo-Russian negotiations is interpreted here as an indication that the highest Soviet quarters are not yet [ready to advance fresh counterproposals.
Meanwhile, well-informed circles believe that M. Maisky has been instructed to continue negotiations with Tord Halifax at Geneva, which, this|following the British Foreign Secretary's conversation in Paris, may lead io a compromise on the differences between Russia and Great Britain.—
Reuter.
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