OFFER OF ASSISTANCE
French Premier Speaks to Germany READY TO OOLtABORATE LONDON, Jan. 24An injirect offer of assistance for Germany in return for an Arms Convention was made by the Premier, M. Leon Blum, at a banquet attended by 3000 supporters of the Popular Front. M. Blum said he did not wish to offend Germany by a blunt bargaining offer, but an inescapable connection emsted between ceonomxe collaboration and the organisation of peace. It was impossible to aid any Power if there Was a fear that the help would be used to increase xnilitary forces. "But if Germany demonstrates a desxre to collaborate, we are ready to work with her," declared M. Blum. M, Blum asserted France 's oppogition to Herr Hitler's method of biliteral pacts with his neighbours, thereby isolating other natiqns.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 9, 26 January 1937, Page 7
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