Paris, Nov, 19.
Hazards facing the creation of a neutral Balkan bloc to stop the spread of war in Europe have increased greatly in the past few days as a result of German intervention upon Soviet Russia's request, French political quarters declared today.
Until lately, Germany kept quiet while Italy silently supported Yugoslav-initiated attempts to form a barrier to M. Josef Stalin's march westward to the Mediterranean. The Kremlin suddenly decided late last week that Herr Adolf Hitler should pull yet another chestnut out of the fire and requested him to tell the Balkan nations that he would regard a Balkan bloc as "unfavourable 10
German-Soviet friendship," Germany, although reluctantly, was compelled to accede, but nevertheless continues efforts to divert M. Stalin's interest eastward, to British possessions in the Orient, French quarters concluded Havas,
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