Paris, Mar, 12.
By an overwhelming majority of 231 voles to 62, the French Senate to-day ratified the Franco-Soviet treaty of mutual assistance. In doing £0, Senator Henri Berenger, the Speaker, declared It, to be the general. senti: ment that "the Senate cannot appear yield to pressure by a foreig 'M, Joseph Paul-Boncour, Minister of Slate and former Premier, pointed out that Germany and Poland had been Invited to take partin the Franco-Soviet pact but had refused. "You cannot claim that you are menaced you refused to join the circle," he asserted, M, Paul-Boncour denied that the treaty had imparted the effectiveness of the Locarno Pact—~ United Press,
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