FRANCE AND GERMANY
BETTER RELATIONS PLAN LITTLE PROGRESS MADE. OBJECTIONS TO RUSSIAN PACT. LONDON, Nov. 22. General opinion does iiqx exaggerate the optimism regarding the French and German conversations, says the corre spondent of The Times at Paris. Wellinformed circles believe that little real progress has been made. German objections to the FrancoRussian Pact are not diminished and the French similarly mistrust the Eastern Pacts. Little value attaches to the ’ agreement regarding land armaments, especially by the French general staff, because of ’ the difficulty of effective control. Moreover, M. Francois Puncet, French Ambassador at Berlin, was not able to hold out hope of an ehrly German return to the League of Nations pending a settlement of the Italian dispute. Inspired comment at Berlin suggests that the overcoming of French and German antagonism is still very difficult, but the communique of November 22 is useful. It is believed that rhe present time, with its internav.onal and’ domestic preoccupations, is not propitious for the resumption of direct Franco-German relations. The Germans have been informed that despite occasional Franco-British divergencies a German policy founded on a fundamental rift between France and Britain would be useless.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 278, 26 November 1935, Page 7
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