Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-12-07 | Page 6 | Epoch-Making Treaty

Making Epoch-Making Treaty PARIS ARIS ABIS dispatches of Tuesday said The epoch- epoch making German Franco-German treaty of amity was si signed ed in Paris this afternoon The document by which Germany renounces all aU claims to Alsace Alsace- Lorraine in exchange for freedom of action in inc c central Europe It Hoping for the best we fear the worst Hitler has broken faith in just about every other case where he has pledged his word and his recent c conduct has given no sign of honorable intentions intentions intentions toward minorities within Germany or to toward toward toward to- to ward any state in the European neighborhood If If- this treaty i is making epoch-making we are minded to predict that the epoch will be the shortest in history j The dispatch records that the ceremony of signing treaty took place in complete silence marked by the utter lack of cordiality customary customary cus cus- tomary on such occasions There was neither a cheer nor a smile on a single face French police had been stationed to prevent an attempt at violence V lence against German Foreign Minister Joachim von who had been smuggled smuggled smug smug- through to the Quai dOrsay v. v via a the underground station while French rench mobile guards roving French secret police police po po- po- po lice Jice and officious members of the gestapo gestapo- German secret police police police-k police kept kept pt eagle eyes on the minister his entourage German embassy officials officials officials and their families and the French populace in the distance The cabled description of the grim affair suggests that it was diplomacy's way of staging a shotgun wedding of La Belle France and Adolf D Deutschland with the gentlemen in waiting waiting-oc- occupying oc- oc c the Siegfried line and the Maginot line