French Press Guarded in Comment

Grey River Argus, 12 November 1949, Page 5

French Press Guarded in Comment

(Rec. 10.55). LONDON, November 11. Reuter’s Paris correspondent says: Feelings here to-day on the Big Three announcement on Germany are expressed in the press. A Right Wing Radical newspaper, I'Aurore, has approved the decisions to admit Germany into the Western bloc, but it said‘that the bloc must recognise “political, economic and military reality”. L’Aurore said that only if Europe were unified would the Germans “cease to be a,, danger and would contribute usefully to a free world”. The independent Left Wing paper, Combat, said: “In the Franco-German duet sponsored by the United States, France’s voice dangerously risks being smothered. There is no doubt about it being a duet in which Labourite Britain has no place”.