GERMAN DELEGATION
A CONFIDENTIAL TALK
ANTICIPATION OF SUCCESS.
(Received May 3, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, 30th April. The Daily Chronicle's Geneva correspondent'has learned from a reliable and confidential source that there was a conference in Berlin on Saturday, between the Government and the most influential leaders in the Assembly, to discuss the situation prior to the departure of the Peace Delegation. Count BrockdorffRantzau, Foreign Minister, said the delegation was confident of ■ being able to secure vital concessions in regard to the Saar Valley, and v^ould refuse to sign terms involving its veiled annexation Ho stated that the armistice negotiations with the Russians were progressing fay-
ourably, and a truce was desirable in order to free the Germans to deal with the Pcles. He opposed an alliance with Lenin, which, he said, would compromise Germany's future. He preferred to establish "good relations with the antiBolsheviks by offering them more effective support than the Entente had done.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1919, Page 5
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