Moscow, May 31. Moscow, May 31.
A firm warning to Japan that it EVERAL reservations in the Anglo-French proposals to the "would be best to drop in good time Soviet, ^which may render an agreement ineffective" were the constantly recurring provocative violations of the frontiers of the mentioned in Parliament today by M. Molotov, President of the U.S.S.R. and Mongolian Peoples Ke-Council of Commissars, and concurrently Foreign Commissar. public" was uttered in Parliament Other points in M. Molotov's speech were statements that:—today by M. Molotov, President of An improvement had been noted in Russo-Italian relations. the Council of Commissars, and concurrently Foreign Commissar.
Russia does not refuse to improve her trade relations with "We have given a warning to this Germany. effect," M. Molotov declared, "through M. Molotov said that the Soviet insisted that the proposed the Japanese Ambassador in Moscow" Pact should be exclusively of a defensive character, a guarantee (Mr. Shigenori Togo).
Dealing with "frontier questions," of all the neighbours of the Soviet, and a concrete agreement M. Molotov said that, by now, those for mutual help if one of the signatories were attacked. concerned should realize that the Soviet would not tolerate any pro-"The Soviet," he declared, "stands vocation on the part of Japanese or unreservedly for the union of all
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