THE PEACE OF EUROPE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 189, 12 August 1925, Page 7

THE PEACE OF EUROPE.

M. BRIAND IN LONDON.

A 35-HOUR SITTING.

DISAPPOINTED PRESSMEN.

(By Cable.—Frees Association.—Copyright)

(Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, August 11. After a cordial audience with Hie Majesty the King at Buckingham Palace, M. Briand, accompanied by 31. Flouriau, proceeded to the Foreign Office and went in by the back entrance, dieappointing a score of Press photographer? in front of the building. MM. Berthelot, Fromageot and Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Sir William Tyrell and Sir Cecil Hurst were awaiting them in Mr. Chamberlain's room. Conversations regarding the reply to the latest German Note on the security pact began immediately after the sitting, lasting 35 hours, of which 27 were consecutive. The "Daily Telegraph's" diplomatic correspondent says that the conversations between M. Briand and Mr. Austen Chamberlain were private and informal. This was in order not to ruffle German susceptibilities by the suspicion that Britain and France were elaborating a treaty which Germany would be requested to sign after the semblance of a discussion. The British Government ha 3 decided that national sovereignty and the solidity of the Empire must be preserved on the supreme issue of peace or war, and that Britain is not to bind herself absolutely to intervene in a dispute, but generally to refer a casus foederis to the League of Nations. In this way Britain will be secured against becoming unduly involved in war. The Polish issue is bound to remain the crux of the situation, says the correspondent, and any attempt to ignore it will l>e frnueht with grave peril.— (A. *nd N.Z.—Reuter.)