Paris, Oct. 24.
There is no confirmation in French official circles of reports that M. Josef Stalin, the Soviet Dictator, has refused Herr Hitlers request for military aid. Moreover, reports received in Paris appear to indicate that no sensational sequel is to be expected from the German Chan-cellars talks with Herr Franz von Papen, German Ambassador to Turkey, who was recently recalled to Berlin, Herr Hitler is reported from neutral sources to lean rather to the naval policy of Admiral Ernst Roeder, the Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy. than the army plans of General Walther Keitel, while it is felt here that the possibility of success of a new peace offensive is answered in advance by the broadcast on Saturday of Mr. Leslie Here-Belisha, British War Secretary, who said that "no peace proposals which rely for their sanction upon the broken word can be considered," and that "nothing but a guarantee for the establishment of a new order from which the menace of Nazi oppression is removed can justify us in laying down our arms."—Reufer.
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