The Archive · 1939

French Ministers Meet

In Council

Franco-Turkish Parleys Discussed Paris, May 20.

The Premier, M. Edouard Daladier, convoked the Council of Ministers to meet with President Albert Lebrun today to study the Russo-British impasse in negotiations aimed at bring-g the Soviet Union into the antigression front in Europe The Council also will discuss the successful conclusion of the recent Franco-Turkish conversations which terminated in France's agreeing to immediate Turkish military occupation of the Sanjak and Alexandretta.

The British Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, will arrive here at 3.48 p.m. today and will immediately go into an important conference with French leaders who are seeking io prevent the collapse of current Anglo-Soviet negotiations.—United Press

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