Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-25
England Accepts
Franto-German
Anti-War Patt
Views Are Exchanged in
Paris on Assumption
War Is Imminent
Ry PERTINAX.

by L En- L lNti(A.
PARIS, Nov. IS CNANA0.-The
salient features of French British
conversations that have taken place
today can be summarized as fol-
lows. Of course, shall spare the
reader all the ready-made phrases
used in official communiques and
semi official comments:
First. Prime Minister Chamberlain
did not raise any objection to the
Franco German declaration, which
probably will be signed in Paris on
November 20 by the French and
German foreign ministers. Georges
Bonnet and Joachim Won Ribben-
trop. Won Ribbentrop, for the oc-
casion. will come to Paris.
M. Bonnet. in order to comply
with a suggestion made Wednesday
morning in the Ministerial Council,
endeavored to win the German Am
bassadors assent to substitution OF
Strasburg for Paris and of the head
officials of both ministries of foreign
affairs concerned for the titular
ministers, but he must not have
been very convincing and he has
conspicuously failed. Thus. Won
Ribbentrop will come and confront
Paris crowd, a doubtful expert
ment.
Criticism Out of Place.
It would have been out of place
for Mr.. Chamberlain to criticize that
achievement of NJ Bonnet's personal
policy, as it is the sort of thing
which he himself would have tried
to do IN analogous circumstances,
and, moreover, in Munich, on Sep
TENDER 30, M. Bonnet was given a
lead.
Those Anglo-German and Franco
German declarations are worse than
useless, in SO far as they are bound
to spread the illusion among the
British and French people that the
painful and onerous job of rearma-
ment can be dispensed with.
Secondly, however, Premier Dala-
der, M. Bonnet, Mr.. Chamberlain
and Viscount Halifax, British for
eign secretary, exchanged views to-
day upon the assumption that
general war might have to be faced
at any moment.
Two Requests by Daladier.
M. Daladier put forward two main
requests. He told his British guests
that the French air experts did not
approve the decision recently ar
rived at in London regarding the
composition of air forces. that more
pursuit planes Tin French, avions de
chasse) than bombers should be
built. M. Daladier explained that
safety lay in the possibility of at
lacking German bases from which
air raids would be directed against
British and French centers of mill
tary and industrial Importance and
that merely defensive tactics were
inadequate.
BY the way, it can be indicated that
the views of the British Air Coun-
Gil do not differ from the views of
the French air general staff. and
that, as matter of fact, MI. Cham
herlain, for motives of his own, has
overruled the air council. Mr.
Chamberlain said that the whole
problem would be freshly re-eXam-
1ned.
The French premier emphasized
the necessity that Britain should en-
large her contingents available for
q campaign on the continent. In 1914
six British divisions were landed at
Boulogne within a few days after
the outbreak of the war. and by the
following Christmas IA British divi-
sions actually were in the fighting
line. The French cabinet has been
much impressed by reports received
from a competent quarter to the
effect that, If war had had to be
waged last September England
would have contributed two motor
lied divisions at once and another
two divisions five months later, while
only 100 British airplanes would
have been stationed in France.
Needed New Equilibrium.
AS M. Daladier put it, it means
that for a whole year France would
have had to bear single-handed the
brunt of battle against Germany
and Italy. He declared that it be-
longed to the British government to
re-establish the strategic equilib-
rum, disturbed to the disadvange of
the western powers by the elimina-
ton for all practical purposes of the
CzechoSlovak army, through increas-
ing the size of its land forces.
Mr.. Chamberlain did not dis
courage his French interlocutors' ex-
pectation that heed would be paid to
their argument.
Thirdly, the French and British
ministers resolved that henceforth
contacts between the French and
British general stats would become
more frequent and that the CO.
ordination of the British and French
war industries would be undertaken.
Fourthly, as to diplomatic action,
as distinct from measures of ma
tional defense, an unexpected step
was planned. The attitude of both
countries toward the problem of
foreign Intervention in the Spanish
civil war will remain what it has
been hitherto. The only important
move considered yesterday is in re-
lation to Poland.
French and British representatives
In Central and Eastern Europe have,
during the previous "a hours, sent |
important kilograms to the effect |
that the government at Warsaw has
massed about IL divisions along the
Ruthenian frontier and, encouraged |
by the fact that Germany has re-
opened the whole question of the
Czechoslovak frontier through hav-
ing annexed last week another slice
of territory seriously intends to pro-
coed with the partition of Ruthenia
In conjunction with Hungary.
Award Remuneration Asked.
Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck
is now trying to persuade the Ger
man government not to stand any
longer by the award rendered in
Vienna three weeks ago. Were Ger
many to give her assent to the
Polish designs he pron,iSes che