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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 113, 16 May 1939, Page 7

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ANGLO-FRENCH CO-OPERATION ’'SECURITY EXTENDED TO VISTULA” [ British Official Wirelees. ] RUGBY, May 14. Speaking of French and British relations at a luncheon of the Alliance Francaise in Southampton where he arrived by air, the French Foreign Minister, M. George Bonnet, said that co-operation of France and Britain had never been closer. Never before had more lively energies and more determined wills been brought together or with a clearer objective in view. Never had their common policy been more plain. I "The French Prime Minister, M. ( Edouard Daladier, I feel, defined this perfectly when he said that France, with England, refused to submit to any domination while not refusing to co-operate with anyone,” M, Bonnet said. He added that while the French people were putting up with a tightening of their national disciplin, Britain was exhibiting the same good citizenship and showing the ’.same courage. She had kept up with the huge effort of rearmament she had undertaken She had accepted compulsory military service, alien as it was to her temperament and tradition. She had extended her system of security not only to the Rhine but to the Vistula.