DISARMAMENT.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20523, 16 April 1932, Page 15

DISARMAMENT.

complications AT GENEVA. FRANCE AND THE BALKANS. (UXITED TRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ZLECTEIO TELEGK APH—COPYRIGHT.) LONDON, April 15. description. of European comp ications as seen at Geneva is given yMr Greenwall, the special representative of the "Daily Express," who depicts a scramble by the Balkan Powers f ° r money, with France seekin,, further help for her satellites, while gold " choked with hoarded It is true, he notes, that Prance lent mi ions of francs to Yugoslavia and uungary, but she benefited largely from tne orders of munitions placed in these -Balkan countries. The Le Creuaot works and the Skoda M*orks ? which were ormerly Austrian, and arc now Czechoreceived many large orders | ior the Balkan States. The Financial Commission of the cague of Nations, which expressed regret that so much money was spent on war preparations, recommends a loan i n n dollars to Austria, and 10,000,000 dollars to Greece. It is t ' iat the he g em °ny of Franco which was established in 1919 is beginning to totter now that Franco has conceived the idea of making the League a super-State, "but," says Mr Grecnwall, unless France abandons the idea America will not remit a cent of war debts, while I understand that Britain has definitely decided not to grant any help to the Balkan countries unless convmced that they desire to help themselves."