London, May 13.
The press this morning stressed ihe importance of the Anglo-Turkish agreements which give a further impulse to the Anglo-Soviet negotiations.
"The success already achieved by British diplomacy should further pro-ress the Anglo-Soviet discussions," The Times" stated. "Similarly, the existence of a Franco-Soviet agreement may promote and certainly cannot impede a Franco-Turkish Pact."
According to the "Daily Herald," "the successful conclusion of the agreement is a hard blow to German diplomacy which had strained every nerve first to prevent it and then to persuade the Turks to conclude a simultaneous agreement with Germany which would in fact have nullified it. Von Papen was sent specially to Ankara for this purpose but he only succeeded in adding to his reputation as Germany's unlucky diplomat, Every step which will give the maximum possible strength to a peace alliance must be taken, And the next and easiest and the most effective step is a full—not a halfhearted—co-operation with the Soviet Paris Stresses Importance Paris, Ma The entire press here stress strategic importance of the Anglo-Turkish and the forthcoming Franco-Turkish accords which will permit a speeding up of the negotiations with Soviet Russia. The press considers the accords with Turkey as a defeat for the Reich which attempted in every way to prevent them from being concluded, "Lo Figaro" stressed that "the economic agreement between Great Britain and Rumania and the agreement between Great Britain and Turkey were concluded despite at attempts by German diplomac; The paper emphasized that Dr. Franz von Papen, the pew German Ambassador to Turkey, first made offers and then issued threats to prevent the agreement, but in vain.
Writing in "Lo Populaire," the well-known journalist Pierre Brossolette, pointed out that "Dr. Goebbels can hardly speak now of his view that the democracies talk while the axis powers act."
"Truthfully speaking, the demo-erades are acting also," he said. "Their method excludes all noise. But this method did not prevent Great Britain from gaining two points at the expense of her opponents' the conclusion of a commercial accord with Rumania and the conclusion of a mutual assistance agreement with Turkey."—Havas.
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