Paris, Oct, 24, In his Danzig speech, Herr Joachim yon Ribbentrop has clearly shown' Germany's diplomatic "game, politifal circles here declared. After the failure of Herr Hitler's "peace offend sive," Germany is trying again to) separate France and Great. Britain by placing the responsibility of the war on London and referring France as a possible friend of Germany. "It is utterly useless to comment on such absurdities" was the semi-official reaction here.
Very few papers commented on the ssoeech and saw nothing new in the address. The lack of Interest dis played by the press here in the Germen Foreign Minister's statement attributed to the fact that the speech }was intended mostly for home con-
Writing in "L'Ordre" this morning, /Pertinax said the speech was "all that Jcould be expected from the vulesr man who made it." adding that "Public utterances of Nazi leaders are jjust_as_shemeful as their deeds" [Herr von Ribbentrop's main purpose Me concluded. was to "hide from the German people the desperate position jin which their Fuehrer has' placed them."
"Lo Journal" also stressed thet the Jspecch brought no new factor into the international situation. "It was hardly worth while to confer with Herr Hitler for two hours to make such common-rece utterances," the paper
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