Paris, May 23.
The Geneva correspondent of "Lo Matin" says that the French plan to solve the Anglo-French-Soviet negotations is broadly as follows:
1, The three countries should guarantee each other mutual assistence in the event of aggression; 2. Russia should guarantee Poland and Rumania, as Britain and France had done, but the form of the Rus-sun guarantee would have to be discussed with the Government of Warsaw and Bucharest; 3. Britain and France should guarantee the Soviet if the latter were indirectly attacked, while meeting their obligations towards other countries.
The correspondent adds that Lord Welifax, the British Foreign Secretary, and M. Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador, may convey this plan to their, Governments—Reuter, Paris, May 24.
An agreement in principle has been reached between Lord Halifax, British Foreign Secretary, and M. Ivan Maisky, Soviet Ambassador in London, regarding an Anglo-Soviet mutual assistance pact, according to very definite reports from French sources, This news hss been greeted with considerable satisfaction in authoritative French circles, although it is realised that the final approval of ihe Governments in London and Moscow has yet to be obtained, French circles suggest that the negotiations have now passed the principle that Great Britain and Russia shall be bound to each other in the same way as Russia and France are tied to each other.
The meeting between Lord Halifax and M. Maisky at Geneva is describ-as a success.
The British Foreign Secretary is row en route to London and is expected to arrive in time to attend the meeting of the British Cabinet to take place today. He will make report on his talks with the French Ministers and the Russian Ambassador.—Reuter.
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