The Archive · 1939

Sir William Seeds

London, June 12.

Mr. William Strang, head of the General Department of the Foreign Office, who has been appointed special representative of the Foreign Office on a mission to Moscow, left Heston shortly after 10 o'clock this morning by air for Warsaw en route to Moscow.

He is carrying special instructions relating to the proposed anti-aggression pact between Great Britain, France and the Soviet to the British Ambassador in Moscow, Sir William Seeds, HET Conferences were held at the Foreign Office and at Number 10 Downing Street this morning before Mr. Strang's departure.

He went to the Foreign Office early this morning for final discussions with Lord Halifax, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Sir Eric Phipps, the Ambassador to France, who is in London to give the French Government's view.

M. Ivan Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador, then saw Lord Halifax and later, accompanied by Sir Eric Phipps,. conferred-with Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, at No. 10

Downing Street.—Reuter.

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