CZECH CONFIDENCE
SECURITY NOT MENACED STATEMENT BY MINISTER PRAGUE, March 14 The Chechoslovakian Minister of Dofence, M. Machnik, speaking at a meeting, said: "Nobody thinks of threatening our security. We are not affected bv the latest happenings. "Czechoslovakia's contractual relations with the other Powers and ot!r own strength have always been the real guarantors of our security, ard will continue to be so." ITALY AND FRANCE A REJECTED OFFER J INDEPENDENCE OF STATES PARIS, March 14 Bertrand .Jouvenel, son of the Frc.ieh Ambassador to Home, reveals in La Liberte, that lie was the channel of Signor Mussolini's offer to France, in June, 1936, to join France in defending the independence of Austria and Czechoslovakia, on condition that France recognised the conquest of Abyssinia. France rejected the offer as incompatible with M. Blum's election pledges.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22988, 16 March 1938, Page 13
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134CZECH CONFIDENCE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22988, 16 March 1938, Page 13
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