Paris, Sept. 26.
Rumours of rapprockements and alifunees between European count-Tries seem to be as interesting to the public as if the League of Nations and the Locarno pact had never Deen invented. Considerable attention has been paid this week to reports in the German Press of con-Nersations between M. Paul Rey-nand, a French member of Paxliament, and German politicians of various shades of opinion, among whom was Dr. Stresemann." Simultaneously, Herr Rechberg, who' is. understood to carry some' weight in his own country, has been trying, quite openly, to influence French opinion in favour of' not only an economic but a military alliance between France and Germany.
No one would have troubled about M. Reynaud had it not been sugested that he was acting on behalf of M. Poincaré and trying to sound German opinion on that statesman' behalf, As soon as M. Poincaré attention was drawn to. this Sesued an emphatic denial, that he had himself seen Herr Rechberg and told him that such matters as Franco-German relations were better discussed by Governments than by private individuals. 'M, Poincaré mentioned this interview at the time to the German Ambassador, who did not seem to attach any importance to it. As for M, Reynaud, who is in Mexico, he has cabled to the effect that his conversations in Germany took place in April, and that they were devoid of weight that he did not! even mention them to his friends at the Chamber when he returned to Paris. Apparently M. Reynaud was trying to do a little amateur account and was led on by his German friends, who have now revealed his doings for their own internal political purposes.
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