FRANCO-GERMAN FRONTIER
STORY OF A JOINT DEFENCE
PROPOSAL
“PLAN NEVER TAKEN SERIOUSLY”
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Cony right.) Australian Press Association.
(Rec. October 2, 7 p.m.)
Paris, October 1. Simultaneously with M. Palnleve’s announcement that France Is expending twenty-four millions sterling on the defences of the Franco-German frontier, the industrialist Herr Arnold Relchberg, a leading advocate of Franco-German rapprochement, has published in Berlin details of a proposed alliance which M. Poincare unofficially rejected in 1928. The plan provided for a military accord giving France half a million and Germany 300,000 troops for the joint defence of the frontiers, in which Belgium would be welcome to participate, each to go to the other’s aid in case of attack, for the evacuation of the German territory of Poland, the return of Danzig to Germany, Danzig returning as a free port; the question of war responsibility to be wiped out and discordant clauses of the Versailles Treaty to be annulled: France not to oppose Austro-German reunion. M. Poincare says that the plan was never taken seriously.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 7, 3 October 1929, Page 11
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