SECURITY PACT

Evening Star, Issue 19063, 5 October 1925, Page 5

SECURITY PACT

THE LOCARNO CONFERENCE FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PARTS, Ocober 3. M. Painleve, in an important speech at Nimos. declared that Franco’s foreign policy was to liberate and to reconcile. This was still Franco’s ideal, but reconciliation in order to become possible in Europe, must bo realised on the Rhine. Franco-German reconciliation was the cornerstone of European civilisation. Such reconciliation was possible, despite century old grudges, if the two peoples would wipe out the mistrust and believe mutually in each other’s sincerity. It was in this spirit that the French Government, as a faithful interpreter of the nation, was about to make Locarno the most enterprising attempt at real peace which anyone bad dared since the armistice.—Reuter. MR CHAMBERLAIN DEPARTS. LONDON, October 3. Mr Chamberlain, in departing to attend the Locarno Conference, said; “Wish mo well, but do not expect too much.”—Reuter. GERMAN DELEGATES LEAVE. BERLIN, October 3. The Papal Nuncio and the British, French, and Italian Ambassadors were amongst those who saw the German delegn res depart for Locarno. It is the first time since the war that foreign diplomats were present at the departure of any Gorman delegation. Extraordinary precautions were taken to keep the time of the leaving of the special train a secret.—Renter.