AN UNTIMELY INCIDENT
FRENCH MINISTER ANNOYED. BLOW TO FRANCO-RUSSIAN RAPPROCHEMENT. Press Association— By Telegraph—^Copyright. PARIS, June 5. (Received June 6, at 5.5 p.m..)A remarkable scene occurred. ,at the opening of the Russian section of;.'. Bus Industrial Arts Exhibition, to; which. M-, de Monzie (Minister of Public Instruction) was invited.' , ~ . While touring the exhibits ,M. * de Monzie and his wife were suddenly confronted with >a crowd of Soviet sympathisers, who shouted “Vive les Sowts, “Vite Lenin,” followed by cries of Give, up Morocco” and the singing of ihe Internationale. , - ••• , M. de Monzie, who was .irritated, turned to M.-Krassin (the .Soviet .Ambassador) and said: “This is unlikely to help the rapprochement of our countries very much. I was invited to artistic manifestation, not a political demonstration. I have * been trying to carry on the work of pacification for six years, and this has upset it aJL , Then bowing to Ma-dame do Monzie and party left ir spite of M« Krassin’s pleading with them, to remain for the reception.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19500, 8 June 1925, Page 7
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