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Russia Warns
France Against
Pact Ratification
MOSCOW, UP)—Soviet Russia
Thursday warned France that rat
ification of the Paris agreements
to rearm West Germany “will
cross out and annul” the French
Soviet mutual assistance treaty
of 1944.
The warning was conveyed in
in a formal note handed by Soviet
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov
to the French ambassador Louis
Joxe. The foreign press was in
formed about it at a news confer
ence in the foreign ministry.
Molotov's press chief, Gen. Leo
nid Ilyichev, read portions of the
note.
11 charged the government of
Premier Mendes-France has allied
itself with “anti-Soviet military
groupings headed by the United
States.”
At the same news conference it
was announced Molotov and the
Soviet government take a favor
able view of recent statements by
Foreign Minister Namoru Shige
mitsu of the new government of
Japan, stating that Japan desires
“a normalization” of relations
with the Soviet Union.
Ilyichev said Moscow Radio
would broadcast a statement stat
ing the readiness of the Soviet
government to discuss this sub
ject with Tokyo if the Japanese
government means what it says.
The Soviet statement will add
that Red China is ready to discuss
reestablishment of relations with
Japan.
Debate on the ratification of the
Paris pacts is to start next week
in the French Parliament.
The note to France charged that
recent policies of its government
“all bear witness to 4he fact that >
ratification of the Paris agree
ments are aimed at remilitarizing
western' Germany and therefore
will inevitably and seriously com
plicate the whole situation in
Europe.
“Therefore, ratification only
serves the purposes of certain
states engaged in preparing a new
war,” it said.
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