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Show France, Britain Cold on Popg's Mediation Offer PARIS, May 10 (l'.i:i Pope Pius' failure to include Russia among interested nations was an important import-ant factor in the coldness shown by France and Great Britain to his offer to mediate in the Polish-German Polish-German and French-Italian disputes. dis-putes. Both Premier Edouard Daladicr and Prime Minister Neville Cham-berlal'n Cham-berlal'n were reported to believe that Russia is now a most important im-portant element in European peace efforts. Further, it was said here that Russia had made it plain that if its cooperation in a French-British "security front" was expected, it must naturally be included in any negotiations which the great powers pow-ers understood. Russia was said to have reminded remind-ed the French and British govern-' ments of the results of the Munich conference a conference from which Russia was deliberately ex-eluded ex-eluded as a gesture of "appeasement" "appease-ment" to Adolf Hitler. Belief was expressed in diplomatic diplo-matic quarters here and at other capitals that the Pope's mediation offer was doomed to failure. |