Gen, von Ribbentrop then enur: elated Germany's objections to the Franco-Soviet pact of mutual assist-any The Pret brings together two star compris. 218,000,000 "peop The two contracting parties are each, by themselves, very strong military: powers in the work "the pact is exclusively directed against Germany:
Russia, which itectt ts separated by a {ong distance from Germany and cannot bovattacked by "her, has, through a similar military" alliance with Czech slovakia, indirectly advan fares tothe German frontier Franco and Russia, by the pact, have made themselves Judges of thelt own cause, because they, and not the League of Nations, will name an ayaressor.
Gen. von Ribbentrop enlarged this point concerning the naming aggressor and the German allegation regarding its itlegatity, He said that clause one of the Franco-Soviet pact signified that Branco could decide whether Gor-many or Russia was the aggressor. There was a reservation that France did not, through its military dispost-Hons, -taken in accordance with its own decision, expose itself to sanc~ ons measures by the Locarno guar-anters, Britain and Italy.
'This reservation, both In law and fact, was' invalid, asserted Gen. von Ribbentrop, because It was impossible for France to foresee the attitude of conviction and juridical interpretation of the German Government, an absolute impossibility."
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