GERMANY'S SECRET PLANS
Reported Berlin Conference (A. and N.Z. Cabie.) LONiDON, May 2' The Daily Chronicle Genoeva. o&r----respo'nden.t learns, from & reliablw source that a confidential conference /was held in Berlin, on. Saturday, last, between the Government and the most influential leaders of the Assembly, when they discussed the situation prior to the peace delegations departure. Count Rantzau" said he was confident he could secure vital concesBions in the Sacr Valley. Ho would refuse to sign terms iiwolvinigi its' veiled a,nnexation. ' He also stated that the a-rmistic« uegotdation with the Russians "was progressing favourably for a truce favourable and desirable, which would free German© to deal with the Poles¥ • Rantzau opposed a.ny alienee with Lenin, which would compromise Germany's future. He preferred to establish good relations with 'the anti-Bolsheviks *by offering more-ef-fective support tha.ii the Entente^
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Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13964, 3 May 1919, Page 5
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