Tokyo. May 8.
While the metropolitan dailies evinced no surprise at M. Josef Stalin's assumption of the Chairmanship of the Council of People's Commissers, at the same time the Tokyo newspapers, the "Nichi-Nichi, "Asahi and "Yomiuri" interpreted Stalin' action as meaning that the Soviet The Germans would keep merely a 12 mile strip along the coast, plus all Atlantic and Channel ports, said reports, and all the Nord and Pas de Calais departments, to which the French are forbidden to return until the end of the war against England The necessity of Marshal Philippe Petain interrupting his holiday travel yesterday to confer with Admiral Darlan, proved the importance of the conversations between Admiral Dar-lan and M. Pierre Laval in Paris on Tuesday. The conversations were believed to have constituted the turning point in Franco-German relations—United Press.
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