Paris, Sept. 1, Poland had agreed to open direct. negotiations with Germany but despite a favourable answer" from Warsaw, German troops launched their aggressive action, quarters close to the Quai d'Orsay revealed today.
On the night of August 30, the Quai @Orsay instructed the French Ambassador to Poland, Bf. Leon Noel, to support the demarche made by his British colleague to Colonel Joseph Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister, urging the Polish Government—to accept the procedure of direct nego lations with Germany. Late in the morning of August 31, M. Noel informed the Qual d'Orsay that Colonel Bock had telephoned him Poland's acceptance of the British and French Fequest. Upon Colonel Beck's instructions, 'Mf, Joseph Lipski, the Polish Ambissador to. Germany, asked for an_audlence from Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister, in order to inform him of Poland's' acceptance, However, Herr von Welszacker, German Under-Secretary of State, asked Lipski whether he was calling in the capacity of ambassador or of a plenty potentiary. Mf. Lipskl replied that he came as ambassador, At 9 pin, the German radio stations announced that the Reich's pro-ossals for a peaceful settlement had been rejected failing the arrival of a Polish plenipotentiary.
Until the present, European tension caused no repercussions in Spain and no special political or military measures were taken here, the same officials added. Observers emphasized that the country's unanimous opinion favoured strict Spanish neutrality in any European conflict. after the Italian and German envoys, had been received, it was reported today.—Havas, Rome Warns Tokyo Not To Leave Axis Rome, Aug: 31, Sections of the Italian press yesterday advised Japan not to be misled by British efforts to split up the Anti-Comintern Axis as a result of the new /Russo-German non-aggression pact, Commenting on Japan's reaction to the German diplomatic manceuvre, an editorial in the Bologna "Il Resto del Carlino" said that the Russo-German pact "has a European function and its bueaning is anti-plutocratic and not anti-Japanese."
"Italy will not lend herself to a British manquyre aiming, through speculation on the German-Soviet pact, to separate Tokyo from the Rome-Berlin Axis;"" the editorial added. "The Japanese Government must not believe that the sympathy of Rome with the glorious Japanese people has been lessened,""—United Press.
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