Paris Peace Pact

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 August 1928, Page 9

Paris Peace Pact

NATIONS’ JOINT ACTION.

GERMANY’S FIRM SUPPORT.

WAR MINISTER’S STATEMENT ALL DELEGATES ARRIVE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association —United Service.) Received 2 p.m. to-day. BARIS, Aug. 26. Herr Stresemann, the first German Foreign Minister officially to visit Parils isinc-e the Franco-Prusisian War, was excellently received by hundreds of French, who made no demonstration though l when the car drove off to the German Embassy there were hearty cheers arid a. few disapproving whistles. His meeting with French officials was most cordial, and l he willingly posed for photographers. Herr Stresemann is adcbnipanied by his personal physician and two 'secretaries. In the interests of his heath, lie has decided not to receive Press representatives, though, soon after his arrival a written statement appeared in tire French Press in which lie :sincerely regretted the drastic orders’ of. his doctor forbidding -personal interviews. He proceeds: “It ;is enough to' enunciate the elementary principles of the treaty in order to understand the extraordinary scope of the imminent international act-. I am convinced w© possess in the Pact a new basis which, with the goodwill of the nations, will enable us to arrive at the creation of a world in which war, one of the most terrible scourges of humanity, will exist no more. “The Germauis are fir my resolved to co-operate energetically in the realisation of this ideal. It is an important fact that it should be. the conclusion of such a pact that brings the German Foreign Minister to Paris for the first time for many years. I have often repeated that in a certain iseriiSe the key to the problem of European peace, lies in the relations of our two countmeis. “We know that after the Locarno Treaty certain difficutlies were >still in the way of an extension of these relations but we were also aware that they were not such n» would 1 .necessarily check the policy of responsible statesmen . They can be removed and consequently ought to be removed. I should he glad if the 'signatories to the Peace Pact in Paris were to favour the itcalisntion of fresh progress in this direction.”

DELEGATES’ RECEPTION

MR. KELLOGG’S BANQUET. SIGNATORIES AND WIVES

Received 2.30 p.m. to-day. PARIS Aug. 26

Every Pact delegate has arrived. Today was largely occupied by receptions on arrival and calling and returning calls. Mr Kellogg had a lengthy conversation with M. Poincare. _ There were forty-eight guests at Mir Kellogg's banquet at the United States Embassy. These included signatories’ wives. The only absentee was Herr Streseman, who is act-in <r on -doctors orders. The Pact, which is in French and English', will Ire. photographed and ns expected to remain a.t the Qttai d’Orsay until signed by all those invited to do so. It will then go> to America.