The Archive · 1937

Paris Doubts Expressed

Discussing the visit to Berlin of Lord Halifax, the "Echo de Paris" says to-day that "we doubt whether the Fuehrer's explanations are satis-fuct ry in spirit, "We doubt also the utility of Lord Halifax' mission even if, by the fact of it, the German policy comes out into the daylight, There is a choice of one of two things. Either the master of Germany will half disclose himself and set the brake on dangerous optimism in Britain, or will lay out, his plans. Then, however, no adequate British reaction showing elf he feel himself encouraged to action."

"Excelsior" states that "one may take the risk of prophesying that France and Great Britain will maintain coherence in their common policy to rebuild a Europe united and freed from the nightmare of ideology ical conflicts and fears of war, and ready to collaborate in economic and financial reconstruction, of which all peoples are urgently in need,"—Reuter,

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