Paris, May 28. The alliance between Great Britain and France had been so consolidated in recent months that the two countries were now one, declared M. Georges Bonnet, French Foreign Minister, in a speech yesterday before the Council of Ministers. Besides accepting conscription Great Britain, he added, had given guarantees to several countries.
The French, M. Bonnet concluded, "know that peace is the most precious of all blessings, and that peaceful exchanges between nations are a vital necessity, but if foreign will should impose on them the greatest sacrifice, every Frenchman will, as in 1914, re-spend to the call of his country in danger."
The session of the Council of Ministers yesterday was devoted entirely to a general review of the foreign situation by. the Foreign Minister.
It is understood that the Ministers were informed that the situation was more favourable from the French point of view than for some time past, although the Government could not afford to relax its efforts to establish a united Democratic peace front, The meeting was also told that the conclusion of a pact between Great Britain, France and Russia would probably be announced shortly, and that the early signing of a Franco-Turkish pact was probable.—Reuter.
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