Observers here also consider it Ukely, that Germany will follow up her "no war" declaration with an carly intimation that the Franco-[Soviet pact is incompatible with a Franco-German rapprochement and. understanding. It is well-known. here that Germany's Jong-standing desire has been to break up, the Paris-Prague-Moscow axis, and with Prague now out of, the alliance, the Reich hopes to break up the Franco-Soviet axis and isolate Soviet Russia.
Informed sources here close to French officials report that Herr von' Ribbentrop's projected visit to Paris already meeting sharp criticism in' certain French quarters which believe the value of the Franco-German "no war" declaration, for all practical purposes, is nil. "They claim that it has far less significance even that the Treaty of Locarno and the Kellona Peace Pact.
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