HAD THERE BEEN WAR
BRITAIN & FRANCE WOULD HAVE WON WITH LITTLE ASSISTANCE FROM RUSSIA. EARL WINTERTON’S OPINION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, October 11. Earl Winterton, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, during a speech at Shoreham today, said that Russia had offered no help in the Czech crisis but had “made only the vaguest promises owing to her military weakness.” He thought that Britain and France would have defeated Germany and made her give up Czechoslovakia, but only after a long conflict and untold suffering. Meanwhile Czechoslovakia would have been ravaged.
PROTEST BY SOVIET , ’’COMPLETE PERVERSION OF POSITION.” (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, October 11. M. Maisky (Soviet Ambassador) called on Viscount Halifax (Foreign Minister) and protested against Earl Winterton’s speech. The Russian Embassy ’ has issued a statement that the speech is “a complete perversion of the actual position,” as stated by M. Litvinoff at Geneva on September 21.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1938, Page 8
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