PEACE PROPOSALS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 April 1933, Page 7

PEACE PROPOSALS

SIGNOR MUSSOLINI’S PLAN FRENCH ATTITUDE DISCUSSED [BY CABLE —PBISS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] PARIS, March 31. There are different versions of M. Paul Boncour’s reference to Signor Mussolini’s peace plan, before the French Commission on Foreign Affairs, According to the most reliable authorities, he said that he would be wrong systematically to oppose this proposal providing for closer and continuous co-operation between the four Great Powers, but he pointed out that France would accept no Pact that was to be superimposed on the League of Nations or one failing to recognise the political and legal equality as between the great and the small Powers. In view of , this declaration, significance is attached to the arrival of M. Titulescu for conversation with M. Daladier.

It is ’ believed that Roumania’s Foreign Minister will urge France to sponsor the demand made by the Little Entente, that it shall be accorded membership, as a fifth Power, in any pact evolving from the Italian Plan.

M. Titulescu is expected to proceed next to London on a similar mission on behalf of Roumania, Czechoslovakia and Jugo-Slavia, who recently concluded a virtual alliance, with the intention of forming a complete “bloc” acting in foreign affairs as a new Great Power. REVISION OF TREATIES. (Received April 1, 10.10 a.m.) PARIS, March 31. “Le Matin” publishes what claims to be the full text of the proposed MacDonald-Mussolini Pact. It is largely as already forecast, but it specifies that Germany, France, Britain and Italy should confirm the principle of the revision of treaties, in accordance with the League Covenant, in cases where the possibility of nonrevision may lead to conflict.

PREMATURE PUBLICATION. [OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] (Received April 1, Noon). RUGBY, March 31. It is authoritatively stated that the text published in the newspapers of the Four-Power Plan represents the first tentative draft discussed at Rome, and does not fully correspond with the text subsequently discussed at Paris. . The project is still under discussion and examination in the respective capitals, and cannot at present be said to exist in any definite form.