FRANCE AND GERMANY
COMMERG'IAL TREATY NEGOTIATIONS
NOTABLE SPEECH BY M. HERRIOT
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Published in The Times.)
PARIS, October 3.
Negotiations with reference to the Franco-German commercial treaty were notable for M. Herriot’s opening speech in which he said he was going to try to write another chapter in tlie Book of Peace. A commercial treaty concluded under present conditions was far more than a contract relating purely to com-' mei’cial interests. It was a work of rapprochement and civilisation. Ho pointed out that before the war the exchange of goods between France and Germany practically balanced) This proved that each country rendered important service to the other. •' It must be their aim to re-establish this exchange and so make life easier for both sides.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 4 October 1924, Page 5
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