FUTURE OF LOCARNO TREATIES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 6, 19 October 1935, Page 5

FUTURE OF LOCARNO TREATIES.

BRITISH WARNING TO M. LAVAL

FRENCH PRESS URGES SUPPORT.

(Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, October 18. Britain’s questions to M. Laval are raising major. European issues, including the future of the Locarno treaties. The Diplomatic correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” understands that Britain has taken the opportunity to remind M. Laval that if France is not prepared to carry out her obligations #nder the letter and spirit of the League Covenant she cannot he surprised if Britain reconsiders her interpretation of the Locarno Pact He French general staff is reported to be irritated at M. Laval’s vacillation.. They consider it folly, to jeopardise France’s friendship with England, thus completely reversing past policy. The French Press takes a similar view. It insists that M. Laval reply favourably to Britain. . , A Rome message states that Italy is also becoming apprehensive for the Locarno Pact, which it regards as the only real guarantee of peace, ancl a vital link between the great European Powers. „ . The publicist, Dr. Victor Gayda, i contrast with his recent attacks on Britain, writes: “It is no longer a question of the wretched Abyssinian altan, but of how the foundations of the political and spiritual system of Europe of to-morrow shall he laid. ’