SOVIET & TURKEY
/ ASSURANCE OF NEUTRALITY. t •) REGARDED AS SATISFACTORY ? BY BRITAIN. j (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) I, RUGBY, April 2. The recent assurance received by 1 the Turkish Government from the Sos viet Government on the basis of a ; Russian-Turkish pact, was referred to ; in the House of Commons at question r time, when the Under-Secretary for ' Foreign Affairs (Mr. R. A. Butler) re- ■ called that the obligations of Turkey , under her treaty of mutual assistance . with Britain could not compel her to 1 take action involving as its consequence armed conflict with the Soviet. Mi - . Butler added that such a possibility would appear to be even further removed by the declaration of the Soviet Government, which he macle clear, in a supplementary reply, was regarded by the British Government, as eminently satisfactory.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 April 1941, Page 6
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