Paris, Aug. 20.
Turkey has informed the French Government of its intention of stand-Ing firmly behind the Anglo-French "peace front" in the current Polish-JGerman crisis, authoritative sources said today, The Turkish Government was said fo have given assurances of support to France following the arrival of Herr Franz von Papen, former Ger= man Ambassador to Austria, in the Turkish capital, Foreign diplomats here regarded Herr von Papen's trip to Turkey at a German attempt to neutralize Turkey if she Is not ble actually to line Turkey up with Germany in a non-aggression pact similar to the recently concluded Soviet-German agreement United Press.
Fuehrer Flatly Rejects French Premier's Plea 'A clear demand that 'Danzig' and the Polish Corridor should be re-tumed to the Reich was made by Herr Hitler in rejecting the proposal of M, Edouard Daladier, the French Premier, that Poland and Germany should enter into direct negotiations to settle their differences, It was revealed today with the release of the text of the German reply, The Fuehrer insisted that treaty revision must come, and defended his methods of achieving that alm. Others, he said, hud objected to these methods, but they nad made it possible for him to solve problems without bloodshed.
Earlier this year, he had mede a proposal to Poland which had shocked the German people, No one Dut he could have made it, and it could not be repeated.
If Great Britain had not encouraged Poland, Herr Hitler asserted in hiv reply, the peace of Europe would have been assured for the next 25 Years. By this action, Polish public opinion hed been excited, The behaviour of the Poles would be ridiculouis were st not dangerous
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