Warsaw, May 14.
An unofficial visit is being paid to Paris by Gen. Taddeus Kesprzycki, War Minister, who left for the French capital this morning. Despite the informal nature of the trip, great significance was attached to it, for observers pointed out that the visit would permit the statesman-general to meet French military leaders.
This will be the first direct contact between French and Polish military chiefs since the enlargement of the Franco-Polish alliance after the conclusion of reciprocal Anglo-Polish guarantees late last month.
The last time that Franco-Polish military parleys took place was in 1936, when Gen. Marie Gustave Gamelin, then French Chief of Staff, visited Warsaw between August 12 and 17, and when Marshal Eduard Smigly-Rydzz, then Inspector-General of the Polish Army, visited Paris between August 28 and September of the same year.
On the occasion of the latter visit, France and Polend signed the Rambouillet accords, whereby Paris granted Warsaw a loan of 100,000,000 zlotys, equivalent to 500,000,000 French francs—Havas.
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