MUTUAL SUPPORT
FRANCE AND BRITAIN
LAND, SEA, AND AIR
REPLY FROM' PARIS
(BriUsJ) Official VVirelcss.l (Received October 8, 1 p.m.) - RUGBY, October 7. The French Government, in its reply to the inquiry addressed orally lo the French Ambassador on September 24 by the Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, says that the suggestions of the British Government lor mutual support irv-the circumstances envisaged in that inquiry fill very opportunely the gap in the system of collective security to which the two Governments are firmly attached. Such obligation, how ever, must be reciprocal, must apply equally on land and sea and in the air, must apply in relation to nonMembers as well as Members of the League of Nations, and should involve the closest collaboration beforehand. Subject to these conditions the French Government is ready to assume in regard to Britain the following undertakings:— "If either of the two Powers judges it necessary to take military, naval, or air measures with a view to placing itself in a position to carry oat in case of- need its obligations of assistance arising out of the Covenant of. the League or the treaties of Locarno it will enter into consultation o.i the subject with the other Power. The procedure shall be similar if either of the two Powers judges it necessary to take military, naval, or air measures with a view to placing itself in a position to meet, should it arise, a situation in which under the Covenant or the treaties of Locarno it would be' entitled to receive the assistance of the other Power. The fact that one or other of the two Powers, j i a Jfter consultation and resulting agreement, takes the' measures referred to !l above shall not on that account be regarded as constituting provocation such as would justify any failure by a third State to fulfil its international obligations. If either of the two Powers is attacked on account of such measures taken after consultation and agreement the other Power will render it assistance."
The French Government asks for a reciprocal undertaking on the part of ♦.he' British Government.
It is understood that the British Government desires to elucidate certain r points in the French reply.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 86, 8 October 1935, Page 10
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369MUTUAL SUPPORT Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 86, 8 October 1935, Page 10
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