FRANCE: Just Initialed

Newshawks hovered about the Quai d'Orsay last week trying to find an official who would talk. Was there a Franco-Russian neutrality treaty under consideration at the Foreign Office? Had it been signed?

At Moscow, Izvestia devoted three Page One columns to a discussion of the treaty. It indicated that an agreement had been reached between the two nations whereby each would maintain a strict neutrality "in the event the other is attacked without provocation by a third power or group of powers." A similar pact exists between Germany and Russia.

Poland, which mortally hates & fears the U. S. S. R.,...

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