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Last week badgered Foreign Minister Benes said that he knew all the time what had been going on from secret sources, but that it had been his duty to pretend official ignorance. After roundly denouncing the proposed Austro-German pact, after promising to fight it tooth & nail, Dr. Benes wound up with an oracular prediction that the Teutons will not get what they want. "Not many things are eaten," he said smartly, "as hot as they are cooked...
...Austro-German agreement was a surprise to me," began M. Briand, smarter than Dr. Benes. "But we must place such events according to their proper proportion. The prestige of France is above such incidents! But we should not forget that Germany's manner of acting was not good...
...Franco-Italian accord would indirectly serve to magnify the existing distrust between the two countries, while England, through whom the agreement was originally drawn up, is new definitely on the side of Italy, and will do nothing more to patch the relationship. France, too, antagonized by the recent Austro-German customs relationship, is thoroughly on her guard. These added difficulties of a European situation already sufficiently troubled will materially increase the obstacles in the way of full understanding at the coming Geneva conference...
...having given a two-year notice. It is this notice which Dr. Bartholdy thinks should be given now, by way of enabling Germany to be unhampered in the developments of the future. His proposal has attracted much attention, and, coming as it does at the time of the proposed Austro-German customs union, has once again raised the old question of the status of Germany under the League, and the Franco-German relations...
...speak on one of the most crucial political questions in Western Europe today, the relations between France and Germany. The struggle which has never been long dormant since the Treaty of Verdun in 1843 has manifested itself again in general suspicion and some show of hostility since the proposed Austro-German customs union was announced. On the issue of the present crisis will depend the Briand Pan-European Plan, and perhaps indirectly, the peace of Europe...