The French Government Is to be congratulated upon the promptness with which It acted in the case of the telegram which the Soviet Am= bassador to France sent to M. Stalin on the conclusion of the Finnish-Soviet peace. " That emissary had the impertinence to Include in his message reference to "the plans of French and English warmongers to extend the theatre of war to north-eastern Europe" having met. with now setback. The French charge d'affaires delivered a demarche in Moscow protesting against the telegram, and informing the Kremlin that the Russian ambassador was no longer persona grata with the French Government, and the Soviet Government had to bow to the Inble as recall him. The impertinence of the man is all the more apparent when it is remem= ered that it was Russia which embarked upon the invasion of Finland, and that there could have been no question of the extension of the war {0 northeastern Europe had it not been for that fact. AMI that the Ailles desired to to. war to go to the aid of Finland in a struggle which had been foreed upon her. That was prevented by the Scandinavian countries. Had it not been prevented the extension of war to that arei would have been something for which the Soviet would have been solely responsible, Moscow just 05, much as Berlin seems to have taken thoroughly to heart the saying that a diplomat a man sent to lie abroad for the good of his own country, and if the French will not tolerate this sort of lying on the part of Ambassadors sent to their capital they are most certainly not to be blamed for it, but rather praised,
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