Evening star., 1938-10-03
FRENCHPREPARE
FOR OK. OF PACT
Government Is Planning to
f: SteamroIIer Approval
Through Parliament.
4y the Associated Press.


PARIS, Oct. 3.-The French govern
ment today prepared to steamrolle,
through Parliament the strongest pos
sible approval of its foreign policy
particularly its part in the four power
Munich accord
Sources close to the government said
the cabinet planned to make a formal
statement to the extraordinary session
convened for tomorrow and then limit
the assembly to one address of eulogy
by the parliamentary leader of Premier
Daladier's Radical Socialist party.
The government hold a powerful
whip over Parliament-since this is
a special session it can order adjourn
ment at any time. Word apparently
had gone out to the Paris press sup
porting the government to urge leg
islators to gag themselves in the in
terest of national harmony.
But even if the steamroller is sue
cessful, despite efforts of the Com
munistS, who are in open revolt and
AAioliy 4NopiOllollSNo, wiz diC lAdhlIiS
common cause with them, it cannot
conceal the fact that Adolf Hitlers
peaceful victory in Czechoslovakia has
cost France dearly.
Decrease in Security.
More and more Frenchmen are voic-
Ing the contention that France is fac
Ing temporary peace with decrease
In her military security, loss of her
carefully built internationally friend
ships and internal unrest.
The military story is quickly told
Germany has taken over an area OF
Central Europe which Bismarck called
"the key to Europe" and which even
French military authorities admit will
release 80 divisions of German troops
Tor duty along the French frontier.
The international story is equally
clear.
France has lost Czechoslovakia as
the keystone of her eastern European
policy. At the same time Rumania
and YugoSlavia as well as Poland and
Hungary have been given demonstra-
tion that they can look to France for
little protection. Obviously they will
seek the most advantageous terms
possible with Germany and her partner
Italy.
With Czechoslovakia went Soviet
Russia, which was linked to France
mainly through the Central European
republic. Russia has minced no words
In letting France know she thought
her policy in the crisis was that
OF a weak nation. Foreign Commits
sar Maxim Litvinoff, who returned to
Moscow from Geneva over the week
end, did not pay his usual call at
the French foreign ministry.
Fear Britain Has Been Lost.
France might have been content to
lose all that If in return it had meant
strengthening Of the French British
alliance on which France has staked
all her hopes. But many are afraid
she has lost Britain, or to keep that
friendship must follow Britain into a
concert of powers where France would
play subordinate role to Germany,
Britain and Italy.
s Prime Minister Chamberlain's mes
Sage to Daladier yesterday reafiirming
French-British friendship was well
coined eagerly in France, but it was
more than Offset by the resignation
Of Alfred Duff Cooper, first lord Of
the British admiralty-friendly to
France.
These developments are driving
France into two distinct camps in
ternally-those who think France has
made the best OF a bad bargain and
those who think the government has
spinelessly given in to a threat of
German force