INCREASE IN TENSION
ANGLO-FRENCH FIRMNESS WAR IF POLAND ATTACKED (Independent cable) (Received August 22, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, August 21 The Evening Standard says that a fairly optimistic view prevails in
British Government circles, despite the increase in the international tension. Official circles do not believe that Germany Is anxious to risk war, while England and France have made every effort to leave no doubt that an attack on Poland would mean a general conflict. PARIS, August 21 The Prime Minister, M. Daladier, and Mr L. llorc-Belisha, British Secretary of State for War, conferred at the War Ministry. They covered the international situation in great detail. .
The French Cabinet will meet on August 22.
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Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 20889, 22 August 1939, Page 5
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