Evening star., 1938-12-07

France and Reich
Discuss Troubles
Confronting Patt
Won Ribbentrop-Bonnet
Talks Will Resume
This Afternoon
BACKGROUND


ence, tDtich disnembered Czecho-
SloDakia, Prime Minister Cham
berlain and Reichstuehrer Hitler
signed tOar-renunciatioa agree
ment. This was tollo,Ued No
Uember is by Mr.. Chamberlain
putting into force Easter pact"
Dith Italy. and yesterday Ger
man Foreign Minister Don Rib
bentrop and French Foreign
Minister Bonnet also signed ac-
cord for avoidance Of ,Dar.
Franco-ltalian pact talks haze
begged do1Dn.
BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, Dec. 7.-France and Ger
many, having signed their agree
ment to try to avoid war, today
talked over differences which might
lead them to break that promise in
the future.
The talks between Foreign Min
listers Joachim Won Ribpentrop and
Georges Bonnet, which began yes
terday and were to continue this
afternoon, were said in informed
quarters to have established Ger
many's position as follows:
/. Germany will not Immediately
press any colonial demands for her
self.
2. Germany will not at present
I,o IN 1xy,c fh1,1oh 1vrnfHr{o1 l
demands for Tunisia or Corsica.
50-Minute Talk Held.
Won Ribbentrop was believed to
have told M. Bonnet just that in
their 5O-minute talk last night. The
German press stated with emphasis,
however, that the new German
French war remuneration pact in no
way detracted from the solidarity OF
the Rome Berlin axis.
3. Germany now has no desire
to establish herself south of the
Pyrenees and is supporting the
Spanish insurgents chiefly because
of Italy's demands OH her as an
axis partner.
In exchange for these pledges
well-informed French sources said
Germany wants France to do moth
ing to stop her economic -political
drive in Eastern Europe, bringing
her ever closer to the Russian
Ukraine.
That, according to French sources
means that Germany wants France
to declare that the French-Russian
mutual assistance pact is really in
operative, so that Germany coulo
feel safer on the west in the event
of a German Russian conflict.
Answer Believed Vague.
Few sources ventured to give M
Bonnets answer to the reported
German stand, but most agreed 1t
was vague.
Pertinax, writing in Premier Dala'
diers Radical-Socialist party news
paper LOeuvre, declared, however
that M. Bonnet would "defene
Russia and Poland no better thar
he defended Czecho-Slovakia.'
Many newspapers ran the story
of the signing of the friendship pact
yesterday and Won Ribbentrops visit
next to other stories whose head.
lines must have caught his eye.
One Of them said: violent anti.
French demonstrations in Rome
Milan and Turin" Another said
Germany's reorganiZed army will
number $50 900 men,"
Better Result Expected.
Many French leaders viewed thu
pact and talks with misgivings. So.
cialist ex-Premier Leon Blum, writ.
ing in his newspaper lie Populaire
said After Munich we expected
something better"
Henri de Kerrilis. Rightist deputy
wrote in LEpoque that the pact wa!
Empty but dangerous. Each day
Bonnet clears the road further fol
Germany"
The Leftist press emphasized thu
complete lack of enthusiasm with
which Parisians greeted Won Rib.
bentrop and the unusual measure.
taken to assure his protection.
In none of the German foreign
minister's appearances on the street
yesterday did the crowds on tn,
sidewalks cheer him. Two thousane
police and thousands of mobil,
guards with fixed bayonets guarded
his arrival.