Paris, Apr. 3.
The Foreign Office has issued a communique regarding the "unwary ranted excitement" caused abroad by frontiers appearing on a map of Europe which figures in the background of a photograph taken at the Ministry of Finance, during the recent meeting between M. Paul Reynaud, former Finance Minister now Premier, and Mr. Sumner Welles United States' Under-Secretary of State.
This map has been represented as showing how the Allies intend "to shape the future Europe," carving up Europe and reconstituting an enlarged Czechoslovakia, Poland and Austria.
The French communique points out the map is merely one showing Europe's frontiers as they were "before Germany's repeated aggressions in the past few years." In the re-Production of the map the photographer has touched up certain frontier lines, thus leading to the misapprehension in the Italian press, which is agitated at the apparent inclusion of Trieste in Austria, the communique adds.—Reuter.
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