WORLD PEACE

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1926, Page 2

WORLD PEACE

S..M. BRIAND* 'REVIEW. ;>'■ (Australian & N.Z. CaWei'Assn.r ~A - -•/* • • '* ,;.v i PARIS; November 30. M. Bi’iand, in th© course of a state- ; ment on foreign policy, said that 1 Syria and Tunis were settling down. France’s treatment of these territorI les ’ had ' been. approved s by the Man- ’ dates Commission of the League. ; Continuing, M. Briattd said that t there had been ill-humoured incidents .in Italy, It Was a pity that such ill humour was always 'directed against , France. Fortunately the incidents , had’ not. led to any serious -results, biR there was a limit to things. The > Consulates and Legations should be i respected. The relations were now , satisfactory, and Frenchmen should ■ riot pay over much- attention to any > wild claims to French territory appearing in Italian newspapers. He said that a lasting European , peace was impossible without a j Franco —German rapprochement. . “Peace,” said M. Briand, “is a per- > son difficult to please, demanding i more than politeness. We riiust give > ourselves to her entirely. The Coven- > ant of the League of Nations is the ■ cornerstone of the Versailles Treaty, and the policy of the Locarno Pact r irierely amounts to putting the League j into action. It was a great thing that [ Germany had voluntarily signed a . paper recognising the French frontier, i and renouncing a settlement of the dispute by force. We are not in the Rhineland in order to bully Germany. The occupation is a pledge for a specific object.” M. Briand declared that the German assertion that France had not made any concessions was ineXact. France had made both concessions and sacrifices. Germany, however, had not made any sacrifice. Her entry into the League of Nations was an honour for her, and not a sac 3 rifice. He was convinced that the a substitution of the League’s military - control in Germany for the inter-Al 1 lied control would reinforce European - security. If another war broke out, j added M. Briand, there would be nc ; victors or vanquished—it would be j Europe’s catastrophe. 3 ——• OCCUPANCY RESENTED. t 3 BERLIN, November 30. . Speaking in the Reichstag, Dr. Bell 1 the newly-appointed Minister for the 3 occupied areas, said that the occupa - tion haunted the people like a night , mare. Germany had paid a higt t enough price for the evacuation, anc r France’s concrete promises should be i fulfilled. PRE-WAR KAISERISMS. BERLIN, Nov. 30. Marginal notes made by the ex Kaiser to letters written by Lord Haldane in 1912 when endeavouring to establish an understanding between Wilhelm and his advisers, are a sen- ’ sational feature of the final volume ! of the archives of the German Foreign ' Office. 1 “Complete ‘bunk’ and without con--1 sequence,” scribbled Wilhelm against Lord Haldane’s remark to the effect that Count Von Bethmann Holwek’s speeches were well received in • Britain. Then against another remark by • Lord Haldane to the effect that no ; Government would be able to quieten t public opinion in England, and that > the consequences were not calculable i if Germany, through Austria, were in • volved in a war with France, Wilhelm wrote: “We’ve calculated all right.’ ; Against Lord Haldane’s reference to the theory of the balance of power, as being an axiom of British foreign policy, the Kaiser wrote: “Sheer rubbish! It will make England our eternal enemy!”