The Archive · 1938

German Offer of Pact To France Non-Aggression Accord Anticipated. Soon

Paris, Oct. 31.

Chancellor Adolf Hitler has offered France a "gentleman's agreement" that Germany would not resort to war for a period of either ten or 25 it was disclosed today.

s disclosure was made after M. Georges Bonnet, Foreign Minister, had received the report of M. Francois Poncet, French Ambassador to Germany on his talks with Herr Hitler.

Political circles regarded as almost certain that France and Germany within a month would liquidate several disputes between totalitarian and democratic—countries.—United Press, Two British Judges Honoured

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