The Archive · 1939

Britain Yielding To Soviet

All Demands for Pact Said Being Met by Foreign Office

Paris, June 28.

Britain will meet all Russian demands and conclude a triple military alliance with France and the Soviet Union with the shortest possible delay, extremely reliable quarters disclosed here last night.

The British Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, was reported to have instructed Mr, William Strang, special British Foreign Office agent to Moscow, to accept the Soviet terms and conclude the military alliance as soon as possible, Mr. Strang was said to have received his instructions last night after British efforts to alter Moscow's terms

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