REPORTED HITCH
FRANCE AND RUSSIA
A VISIT CANCELLED
PARIS, April 20.
The cancellation of the visit of M, Litvinoff, Russian Commissar for Foreign Affairs, to Paris is apparently due to a hitch in the initialling: of the Franco-Russian Mutual Assistance Pact. The Soviet is believed to desire that if Germany attacks Russia France should instantly declare war against Germany without waiting for the League to define the aggressor.
"Pertinax," in the "Echo de Paris," says that M. Laval, French Foreign Minister, has three times changed his mirid on this point, concession of which would sever him from the pro-German policy dear to his heart, but he will have to yield because the Russo-Czech and Danubian Pacts depend on a Franco-Russian agreement.
Another reason for the delay is given by "L'Oeuvre," which declares that a Deputy, M. Scapinl, brought from Berlin an assurance that Herr Hitler is willing to visit Paris to discuss points of Franco-German difference, as a result of which M..Laval is disposed.to consider the possibility of an agreement with Germany.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 94, 22 April 1935, Page 7
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172REPORTED HITCH Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 94, 22 April 1935, Page 7
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