Riga, Dec. 1.
.M. Viacheslav Molotov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, stated today that he refused to negotiate with the new Helsinki Government but expected to conclude a satisfactory agreement with the newly-formed "People's Government."—Reuter, Helsinki Cabinet: Denounced Moscow, Dec. 2.
M. Viacheslav Molotov, the Foreign Commissar, in a communique replying to President Roosevelt's Note, states that the substitution of MAK. Kajender's Government by one under M. Viano Tanner would not improve matters. "M. Tanner was, and undoubtedly remains," he declares, "the evil genius of Soviet-Finnish negotiations" The formation of a People's Government, however, causes the (Continued on page 10, col. 2)
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