On the whole we see even more reason than before
to believe that Hindenburg's election will not be injurious to the international negotiations for a rapprochement if only France does not lose her head. The Matin has published an article by M. Jules Sauerwein who has inter- viewed one of Hindenburg's intimate collaborators. This informant said that the President's advisers felt that negotiations for the Pact of guarantee ought to go on and that the preliminary condition suggested by Dr. Luther of the final abandonment of Alsace-Lorraine ought to be accepted. As regards the crux of the Polish frontier he said that all that Germany wanted was to get the guarantee of a modified frontier in full agreement with Poland. He confessed himself hopeful, as the corridor was useless to Poland both in peace and war.
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