FRANCE DISAPPOINTED.
AT BRITAIN’S ACTION
KILLING THE PROTOCOL
| BY CABLE -PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT PARIS, March 13. The Echo de Paris comments that Mr Austen Chamberlain (British Secretary for Foreign Affairs) inflicted the heaviest blow the League has yet sustained.. Apparently Britain is not willing to make any agreements till Germany, without reserve, joins the League. Is it sure that Berlin: will ever consent to this? The paper accuses Britain of repudiating the protocol’s foundations and sapping the principles for which the League stands. Mr Chamberlain’s speech is a painful awakening and a cruel disappointment. The Journal des Debats says the real meaning of Mr Chamberlain’s speech is that the protocol gives the members of the League disproportionate powers. Britain restored to the League the mission it can usefully fill, whereas the French thesis gives it absolute and universal authority. The moment is most favourable for the expression of France’s true policy, for Britain has not rejected the pacts as well as the protocol.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 March 1925, Page 5
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