ANGLO-FRENCH RELATIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 May 1939, Page 7

ANGLO-FRENCH RELATIONS

TRIBUTE BY M. BONNET. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, May 13. Speaking of French and British relations at a luncheon of the Alliance Francaise at Southampton, where he arrived by air, M. Bonnet (French Foreign Minister) said that co-opera-tion between France and Britain had never been closer. Never had more lively energies and more determined wills been brought together or with a clearer objective in view, he said. Nevei- had their common policy been more plain. M. Daladier, I feel, defined it perpectly when he said that France, with England, refused to submit to domination while not refusing to cooperate with anyone.” While the French people put up ■with the tightening of their national discipline, Britain exhibited the same good citizenship and displayed the same courage. She kept up with the huge effort of rearmament, which she had undertaken. She had accepted compulsory military service, alien as it was to her temperament and tradition. She had extended her system of security not only to the Rhine, but to the Vistula. SYRIAN INDEPENDENCE. BEIRUT, May 13; The French High Commissioner (M. Puaux), in a broadcast said: “France remains faithful to her promise to give Syria independence. In this connection she desires an agreement as soon as possible with the Syrian Government on the basis of the principles already agreed on.”