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SOVIET'S MOVE FOR
REAL PEACE BLOC
Chamberlain's Insincere Reply
MOSCOW, May 9.—The following statement by Tass has been published:
According to information received from London. Reuter
has broadcast a report to the effect that the British reply to the
U.S.S.R.'s proposal contains the following counter proposals:
Firstly, that the Soviet Union must guarantee individually
each state bordering on it, and secondly, that Great Britain
undertakes to render assistance to the U.S.S.R. should the
latter enter war_as a result of the fulfilment of guarantees it
has undertaken.
On the basis of information received
from authoritative Soviet circles Tass
is in the position to state that this Reuter
report does not fully -conform to
fact.
On May 8, the Soviet government actually
received the British government's
"counter proposals" to which
the French government raises no objections
either.
These proposals do not state that the
Soviet government must guarantee individually
each State bordering on the'
U.S.S.R. It is stated there that the Soviet
government mutt immediately render
assistance to Great Britain and
France, should they be drawn into military
operations in fulfilment of obligations
undertaken by them with respect
to .Poland and Humania,
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