EUROPE’S PEACE

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 991, 5 January 1927, Page 8

EUROPE’S PEACE

ESTABLISHED • tvT CANNES

M. BRLAND’S DECLARATION f. f r ; \■: '- 4 - {Aust. and N.Z. Cable.) “Paris, Jail. 3. . M. Brinnd, ini an important passage ini an interview published by. Le Jour." nal. declared!:- — " * ‘IB was not on the Locarno basis -that- the peace of Europe wa.s r: ’fi('st-. established. It was at Cannes,’with the notes I exchanged with Mr Lloyd. George in 1922. 'Germany, Belgium 'and Italy were to have joined the Anglo-French agreement, and no country was to have been, admitted •’subsequently to , the Genoa' Conference without- ,signing a formal declaration of non-aggression. ' You know, whaf happened. I do not wish to grumble. When I returned to power I resumed 'the" work where 1 Lett. oh. in 1922. M. Briand concluded: “If the system of treaties' such as Locarno had existed in 1914 would Germany have declared war? Never. - • .