FRENCH PROPOSALS
COUNTER TO GERMANY
MODERN ARMY FOR LEAGUE
MUTUAL HELP TREATIES
PARIS, April 5.
A French counter-plan to the German proposals is practically completed and will finally be approved by Cabinet today, after which it will be handed to Britain, Italy, and Belgium, also to the League, as an indication of French determination to keep the proposals within the framework of. the League. : According to "L'lntransigeant," the proposals return to the French plan of 1932 in the suggestion that the League should be provided with an effective modern mechanised army, maintained on a war basis, to be used in the event of violations of the Covenant. It is proposed that the big Powers contribute three or four army corps and the smaller Powers one corps. The counter-proposals also recommend a new network of mutual assistance treaties and limitation and reduction of armaments, but refuse the German proposal of bilateral pacts, stressing the view that Herr Hitler's proposals tend towards the organisation of a pan-German plan eventually leading to war, while France's proposals ensure a League organisation representative of an indivisible peace.
France has announced that the leader of her representatives at the staff talks, which will probably begin on April 6, will be General Schweissgutt, assistant-chief of the French General Staff, but General Gamelin, Chief of Staff, may attend if a more important aspect is reached. The delegation will also include naval and air force representatives.
FRENCH PROPOSALS
Evening Post, Issue 82, 6 April 1936, Page 9
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