Bangkok, Feb. 28.
Thailand is willing to agree to Japan's mediation compromise of the Franco-Thai dispute. reliable sources said here yesterday, but the French have refused to accept.
Some quarters here speculated as to whether a third Power was encouraging the French to take a stronger attitude to Japan because. reliable sources said, the French previously had agreed in principle to the Japanese proposal before expiration of the second Armistice. Then. suddenly, France, decided to refuse to accept settlement. it was saíd.
Thai quarters believed that if border fighting. breaks -out again it will not be confined to Thailand and Indo-China alone but will involve Britain, Japan and possibly the United States, due to the explosive condition of Far Eastern affairs—United Press.
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