NEW POLICY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 June 1924, Page 5

NEW POLICY

REMARKABLE PROPOSALS. PACT TO INCLUDE GERMANY. MEANS TO SECURITY. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, June 26. Widespread interest is evinced in Mr. Norman Angel’s interview with M. Her riot, published in the New Leader, wherein M. Herriot explains the adoption of a new policy giving France security against the German menace. M. Herriot proposes that the Allies enter a pact, lor mutual assistance under articles 10, 16 and 21 of the League of Nations, Germany to he subsequently allowed to become a party to the pact. M. Herriot said: “I do not merely mean that Germany shall become a member of the League. I mean it to be open to her to join the Allied pact. We shall accord Germany the protections embodied in the pact if she assumes its obligations. My 'statement astonishes you. I will tell you something which will astonish you more. General Nollet, though a soldier, stands by the principle of the inclusion of Germany in the.pact. LONDON, June 26. The statements by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald (British Premier) and M. Herriot (French Premier) are regarded as disposing of the story of a pact in the event of German aggression. According to Paris dispatches, M. Herriot explained that the Chequers conversations naturally bore on the cooperation of England and France in the maintenance of peace, and upon a guarantee for France in case of aggression, but he did not claim that there had been any definite conclusion. He added that there was no. question of reducin'* the security given to France by the Versailles Treaty.

, Geimiany must be disarmed in order that Europe might breathe freely The declaration of promises would’ not suffice. He found Mr. MacDonald in complete agreement with this point.