Moscow, Feb. 20.
"While the Soviet press today took up the cudgels on Germany's behalf in the Altmark case, the official newspaper "Pravda" also severely criticized the German organ "Nachtausgabe" for accusing Moscow of "having ambitions reaching to the Atlantic seaboard."
The "Pravda" voiced indignation over the fact that a German newspaper should utilize "British arguments" against the USSR.
Fighting Germany's battle in the Altmark affair was the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" which alleged: "The Franco-British war bloc is going from abjurations to threats and direct meddling in the internal affairs of neutral states."—Havas.
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