Singapore, Jan. 28.
"The time will come when Germany and Italy will regret not lining up with the other European Powers in the Far East in a common front against Japan," declared M. Edouard Pfieffer, prominent French politician and member of a former Daladier Cabinet, when he passed through Singapore on his way to Europe after a tour of the Far East.
M. Pfeffer was in the French Cabinet when M. Daladier was Prime Minister from 1933-34. He is now Political General Secretary of the French Radical Party and General Secretary of the International Entente of Liberal and Democratic Parties in Europe.
"It is a great blow that the German and Italian Governments have not understood the. necessity of a common European front against Japan," added M. Pfeffer.
"And yet most of their own observers in the Far East are convinced that their action will be greatly regretted in the future."
"I hold it an absolute necessity," he went on, "for personal contacts to be maintained by the naval, military and administrative heads of French Indo-China, the Philippines and Malaya."
M. Pfeffer said he expected peace Europe.
"I'm sure that Italy does not want war, and Germany will never go to war with France and Britain for love of Italy. Germany will be busy in Central and Eastern Europe for yea he concluded, "and as long as Britain and France are strong, there will be no danger of war in the West."—Reuter.
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