FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY
SERIES OF NEGOTIATIONS. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] PARIS, December 18. A renewed report of a FrancoRussian military pact has produced a series of denials, tho French Foreign Office stating that there is no more between the countries than a diplomatic understanding to work together for an Eastern Pact. M. Laval, speaking in the Senate, said that France was also engaged in negotiations for a rapprochment with Italy, to settle purely Franco-Italian questions. France desired to have a full agreement with Poland, and Franc© also would shortly resume negotiations with Germany. He £*id it was believed that a Franco-German rapprochment, within the international framework, would effectively guarantee peace. Germany would be again invited to participate in an Eastern Pact. Th© Chamber, by 460 votes to 130, voted a supplementary grant of eleven millions sterling for the modernisation of France’s war material. Cries of “Oh!” greeted an announcement that France is to buy machine tools for munition making from Germany.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 December 1934, Page 7
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