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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 151, 22 March 1939, Page 6

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FRANCE PRAISES CHAMBERLAIN Approval Of Plan For Common Front VIOLENT ATTACKS IN NAZI PRESS Britain’s “Hate, Impotence And Hypocrisy” (Independent Cable Service.) (Received March 22, 1.45 a.m.) LONDON, March 21. The French Press unanimously praises the plan for a common front against the aggressor Powers. Al. Blum, leader of the Socialist partv, writing in the “Populaire, praises Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Halifax whom he says are now applying themselves to effacing the, bitter memories which events of last September left in the minds of the leaders ot Soviet Russia. “An Anglo-Soviet rapprochement, he says, “will be followed by an 'ideological bloc’ of peace.” The Berlin Press continues to vituperate against the democracies in general and Britain in particular. The “Boersen Zeitung” says the fact that Jbe British “clutch at the Soviet straw is not evidence of statesmanship but of hate, impotence and’ bottomless hypocrisy. “The league which England is organizing against us will not. frighten us,” says the paper. General Franco has sent a telegram to Herr Hitler congratulating him on the Czechoslovak coup, but the fact that Signor Mussolini has not yet sent his congratulations has not escaped the notice of Nazi leaders who are believed to understand it as a sign that the Duce is impatient of the German successes while he continues to mark time. It is reported tihat Field-Marshal Goering, when he goes to Italy, will take a sop to Signor Mussolini in the shape of Herr Hitler’s assurances of a large measure of support for the Italian claims in the Mediterranean.