PEASE IN EUROPE

Evening Star, Issue 19001, 24 July 1925, Page 5

PEASE IN EUROPE

GERMANY'S REPLY NOTE FRENCH OPINION PESSIMISTIC Tress Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 22. While British official opinion regarding the German reply remains one ol' watchful hopefulness, French opinion has become pessimistic. Ji is reported that non- that M. Briand (French Foreign Minister) lias studied the reply lie has come to the conclusion that if the German reservations are maintained there will lie little chance of a successful 1 issue to the negotiations. The Paris correspondent of the. ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ says that French interpretations of the reply can he summed up in the sentence: Germany is out to revise the Peace Treaty. The question is being raised in London whether Britain should continue to watch the Franco-German negotiations or fully participate in them. 'The more cautions policy will probably prevail yet awhile. 'I lie ‘Daily Gerald's’ diplomatic correspondent states that, though the Urn isa government regrets that the Gorman Note lias been modified at the Nationalists’ request, these siiffeniiigs arc not taken too seriously, lor a bargain has already been struck with Berlin, and German industry will therefore not risk losing a British loan. British diplomacy is now trying to reconcile Germany and Franco, but the latter is hound to consider Czechoslovakia. and Poland, These two coiinI l ies are very suspicious, and are eonhdeiii that. Germany, in return for signing the pact, obtained an uiidertaKuig I rom Mr Chamberlain promising both a loan and British .support lor the German claim to revise the Polish frontier. Ihe ‘ .Daily Herald's’ Pans correspondent says that the (,)nai d'Orsay is convinced that. Germany is in reality acting upon .British initiative. BP IT AlX' S 1X DEB K N ()EN( 'IT LONDON, Julv 2d. ‘ The Times,’ commenting on tlie German reply, says it is necessary to stale once again that., while it is in the interests ol .Britain that arbitration should cover all disputes, and that every [irecaution must he taken to prevent hasty or arbitrary coercive action, the final decision whether Britain will or will not take part in coercive measures must bo left exclusively in British hands.A. and N.Z. Gable.