FRANCE DECLINES TO NEGOTIATE

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21728, 10 March 1936, Page 9

FRANCE DECLINES TO NEGOTIATE

Intention to Demand

Sanctions

GERMAN " EXCUSE "

r.I. SARRAUT STANDS BY

TREATY i : ROVISIONS

(Received March 9, 7.16 p.m.)

PARIS, March 8

The French Cabinet's refusal to entertain Ilerr Hitler's proposal is backed by the determination to demand economic and political sanctions against Germany. The Government further considers itself entitled to the immediate assistance of England and Italy under the RhineJand pact.

The Government has asked the league urgently to summon the Council, point ins out that in spite of Baron von Neurath's announcement that. Germany merely intended as "symbolical" the sending of .small detachments into the demilitarised zone, important forces have already appeared in several localities. The Prime Minister (M. Sarraut) flatly declines to negotiate with Germany, basing his refusal on her two unilateral repudiations of solemn engagements as destroying confidence in her oiler, also on her unannounced entry into the Khineland and thus facing Furope with a fait accompli. "I'oor JKxcii:-.'" '■lnternational relations could no longer exist if this method became general," declared M. Sarraut in a broadcast speech. "France serves European peace in opposing it. The mere installation of German troops along the Rhine forbids negotiations. We intend to insist on the maintenance of essential guarantees of Franco-Belgian security which the Locarno Treaty provides. "Strasbourg must not fail ' under the menace of German guns, it is indispensable that the signatories of the Locarno Treaty exchange their views on Germany's denunciation of it. Our cause is just and strong. "Herr Hitler makes the FrancoRussian pact a pretext for his acLion. That is a poor excuse because the pact is not yet ratified by the Senate. Ilis real object in acting now was to choose a lime when the French people might be divided by a general election. No Frenchman merits the insult that he would allow interna! differences to cause France's; enslavement." TEN THOUSAND MEN IN RHINELAN!) CXITS NOT AT Fi'LL STUFNC'ni r<is;;ir;i.r; Ri:iM';>:;< tAiknt in six months (!;vccivcd*March 0, 7 la p m.) PAh'IS. March " The I'onn bridge, over which 111" ( iCTtnans marched ml' < lh" demiii ■ , larised zone, will b" chri.-iciK'd "The, Bridge of Liberal inn." Advice from Frankfurt-on-Main is

I hat. enquiries in moilny circles indicate thai a total of in. Dliii Carman

(roups are oecnpyine liie new

■ni\s in the h'hmoland, (he laabai

ralalma'e, Ihe Saar, and iles.se; in Ihe Uhineland there ia, yoir.c diaicull.v in he'aan.a t ! "- ia..'aa. an :,oji" of ('he hash/ (asm.:.', over of sela.ola and other buildings. This force ...'presents del ■'"liim nts of various arms which may b" brought up In uoiinai in si:: mondis.. r ('he (oreian press, it •:■

slated, j'reafly esaye,crai:'s I Ik- number of troops eutcrii::; ihe d'anihtarised zone.

llerr fliiler will shortly vi:af (In Rbineland and insjject Ihe newly/garrisoned towns, as he did in the Saar.

VROUA'.ILE HKLCIAX XQTE

TO LEACHU':

(i Him AN VIOLATION Oi

I.OCAKNO TKKA'I^

(Received March 0, 7.7 p.m.) BRUSSELS, March 8. On lines similar to the French note Belgium will probably direct the League Council's attention to Germany's violation of the Locarno Treaty. LONDON EXCHANGE CALM NO MAKKKIi CHANCE KXi'ECTLD OX MARKETS (Received March 0, 8.3 p.m.) LONDON. March 8. The city editor of the "Daily Mail" says that the ■ apid cnange which came over the European political situation was calmly received by the city, which is not pessimistic. Parisian sellme. of francs unsettled the exchange market necessitating the intervention of the authorities in Pans, and the market was calmer before the close. Some quarters are of the opinion that the eventual outcome of Germany's action will be the removal of the causes of friction. While hesitancy can be expected on Monday no marked change m the markets is anticipated. There is no occasion for investors to sen.