EUROPEAN PEACE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 6 March 1925, Page 5

EUROPEAN PEACE

HOAV TO SECURE IT

VISCOUNT GREY'S ADVICE

INCLUSION OF GERMANY

BY CABLE -PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received March 6, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, March 5. Viscount Grey told Liberal Parliamentarians that no French Government dare, surrender their Rhine pledges until France was given security. A Franco-British-Belgian pact would not give security, but would tend towards war. Any" arrangement to which France, Britain and Germany were parties might develop into real security. Meanwhile the British public must recognise that the way to help European peace was to make some firm offer to promote European security in which the Empire can join. European security was as important to Britain as to the Continental countries, because Britain was part of the Continent owing to the invention of big guns, submarines and aircraft. —Sydney Sun Cable.

MORE SPECULATIONS

LONDON. March 5. It is expected that the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr. A listen Chamberlain) will make an, important speech in' the House of Commons to-day regarding the Geneva protocol for the security of Europe. According -to arrangements he will go to Paris on Friday to converse with M. Herriot (Premier of France) and will proceed to Geneva, on Saturday. Mr. Chamberlain presided at two Cabinet meetings yesterday in the absence of the Premier (Mr. Stanley Ba Idwin.), whoto aged mother is seriously ilk Lord Balfour was present at the Premier’s, request. The Morning Past says it is no secret.in Ministerial circles that the protocol is. dead. Tt- will be Mr. Chamberlain’s duty to state at Geneva that the Government is of opinion that the document is incapable of amendment. The exchange of views with the Dominions is expected to be a lengthy process, but the policy, when evolved, will be a 'real..Empire policy. It is understood that the majority in the Cabinet still! favours the inclusion of Germany in the security pact.