FLANDIN AND FRANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1935, Page 11

FLANDIN AND FRANCE

TRADITIONAL POLICY

NO CHANGE ON ARMAMENTS

("Tlmos" Cables.)

LONDON, February 6. The Paris correspondent of "The Times'' says that M. Flandin; Premier, making a statement.*on'..the1' London negotiations in the Chamber ol Deputies, emphasised that. although perfect identity, of .views had been established between the French and, British Governments regarding the organisation of European peace, there had been no change in Prance's traditional policy on armaments.

The problem was universal and would not be taken out of the League's hands. The aim of both Governments was to make a reality of equal rights within a system of security for all, but the conditions of security and a general armaments convention must be estate lished simultaneously.

There was no question of substituting the proposed: air convention for the Locarno Pact, which remained intact The air convention was meant to be an instrument of prevention, not punishment, but nothing was yet. definitely; settled.

• Further. Franco-British negotiations would occur when the replies of other Powers were received.

The correspondent adds .that the conduct of negotiations, which must now begin with Germany, has been left largely in the hands of the British Government.