RATIFICATION POSTPONED
RUSSO-GERMAN PACT
DECISION BY SOVIET (Independent Cable Service.) (Reed. Aug. 29, noon) LONDON, Aug. 28. The Supreme Soviet Assembly has postponed the ratification of the RussoGerman pact. The Exchange News Agency’s Moscow correspondent says that the lower house at a meeting this afternoon agreed only on the order of the agenda for Parliament to-night. The House put agricultural taxation .first, universal military service second, and the German-Soviet Pact third. The pact may not be reached until Thursday or Friday.
The Supreme Soviet Council met briefly and arranged a short session with the Council of Moscow Nationalities to-night.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20028, 29 August 1939, Page 5
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