LEAGUE JUDGMENT ON GERMANY

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 68, 20 March 1936, Page 9

LEAGUE JUDGMENT ON GERMANY

LOCARNO POWERS FIND BASIS

CONSIDERATION BY GOVERNMENTS

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

(Received March 20, 11.50 a.m.)

LONDON, March 19,

The League Council carried unanimously the Franco-Belgian resolution concerning the German remilitarisation of the Rhineland, finding that Germany committed a breach of the Locarno and Versailles Treaties.

The vole was taken after an adjournment which followed the address of the German delegate. Herr yon RibbcnLrop, the voting being 11-0. Chile abstained from voting, and Ecuador was absent. The ayes consisted of Argentina, Australia, Denmark, Britain, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Spain, and Turkey. The President, Mr. S. M. Bruce, invited the parlies to the dispute to register votes, which would not, however, be recorded. France and Belgium voted in the affirmative, and Germany in the negative. Herr yon Ribbentrop made a statement regretting the result, declaring that there would not have been that decision if members of the Council had had time to study his observations. After tho Council had voted an adjournment was taken until tomorrow. , . Full agreement had been reached earlier by the Locarno Powers. Agreement for Ratification. A communique issued by the French delegation said that the four Locarno Powers had made great and satisfactory progress towards agreement. The position at present.is that the delegations have drafted among them a text of agreement which is being put into form and will be submitted to Ihe respective Governments. The communique is taken as indicating that agreement has been reached pending ratification by lbs English and French Governments. The Governments will retain full liberty of judgment in the matter. M. Flandin (France) and M. Van Zeeland (Belgium) returned to the Continent this afternoon to consult their respective Cabinets. The British Cabinet will consider today the joint memorandum of the Locarno Powers, and the French Cabinet will discuss it simultaneously. The two Governments will direct the communication. v ' German circles are most pessimistic of the prospects of German acceptance of the memorandum. Reported Points of Agreement. It is understood that the Locarno Powers have agreed on three points, namely: (1) There shall first be appeal to The Hague Court regarding the compatibility of the Franco-Soviet Pact with the Locarno Treaty; (2) there shall be a demilitarised zone only on the German side of the frontier, policed by international forces: (3) an agreement regarding collaboration between the British and French General Stalls. German circles stale that no compromise is possible on two points: Germany will not agree to reference to The Hague Court or withdrawal of troops from the Rhineland.