London, June 26.
The Cabinet Foreign Affairs Committee met at 6 p.m. today under the chairmanship of the Premier, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, himself to approve new instructions meant for Sir William Seeds, Ambassador in Moscow.
These instructions, it was learned, constitute a step forward on the path to a final tripartite mutual aid pact with Soviet Russia and France.
The chief points of these instructions were indicated to Sir William on Saturday morning, but the full draft has yet to be approved by the Cabinet also.
According to informed quarters, the British Government was further revising its stand in the matter of automatic assistance and guarantees to other States.
It was assortedly accepting Soviet views and agreeing that Britain, France and Soviet Russia should extend automatic assistance to each other in the event of aggression or a threat of aggression against neutral powers whase independence was considered of vital interest to one of the signatories,
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