POLAND’S BORDERS

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23083, 23 December 1944, Page 5

POLAND’S BORDERS

Franco-Russian Agreement (Rec. 8.10 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 21. France and Russia have agreed that Poland will receive East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia and have approved taking from the Germans control of the the Saar, the Ruhr, and the Rhine Valley. This statement was made by M. Georges Bidault, French Foreign Minister, in a speech in the Consultative Assembly, Paris, reports an Agency correspondent. M. Bidault added: “But this is a question we must setle with our allies. What is certain is that Germany must have no more troops in Cologne, Mayence, or the Ruhr.”

Referring to the recent FrancoRussian agreement, M. Bidault said: it was the beginning of a general federation in which neither France nor Russia wished to initiate anything without Britain and the United States. This was expressly stipulated at Moscow, where at no time was any bloc envisaged in which Britain and the United States had not a part. The French Consultative Assembly cheered wildly when General de Gaulle, closing the debate on the FrancoRussian Pact, said that France to-day did not conceive of victory or the reorganisation of the world to-morrow without an alliance with Britain. The Paris correspondent of the British United Press reporting the utterance, added that General de Gaulle thereby strongly implied that a new French and British alliance is to be made. There was further sustained utterance added that General de ferred to Britain’s example in resisting the Germans. General de Gaulle added that the French and Russian Pact would be the basis of all France’s future international treaties