Four Power Pad

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 May 1933, Page 7

Four Power Pad

agreement reached ' ELECTRIFYING EFFECT PROPHESIED ROME, May 21. It is authoritatively reported that Britain, France, Germany and Italy have reached agreement on the terms of the Four-Power Pact proposed by Mussolini. . Drafts have gone to London, Paris, Berlin and .Geneva. It is believed that the Pact will be initiated at Geneva. .Mussolini is expected to simultaneously make i a statement in the Italian Chamber. * The opinion is expressed here that, when the four Powers formally confirm their acceptance of ( the Pact, it will have an electrifying effect on. the World Economic Conference, as the Pact binds the signatories to unite in keeping the peace of Europe for a decade. The pact agreement is expected to give France a, renewed sense ox security and ensure peace for ten years. Stormy Cabinet Meeting Forces Boncour’s. Hand

Received Monday, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, May 22. The News-Chronicle's Paris correspondent ■ says: ‘‘The 1 Socialist newspaper Populaire declares that Cabinet at a stormy meeting instructed M. Bon<>our to accept the British disarmament plan on condition that international control of armaments was established and disarmament effected in stages. ’ ' French newspapers urge M. Boncour. French Foreign Minister, not' to tie France's hands without complete security regarding which British guarantees are insufficient.

“Control” is France’s Watchword STILL SUSPICIOUS OF HITL2R Received Monday, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, May 22. The Guardian's Paris correspondent says “control'' has become the watchword of France's disarmament policy. She is prepared to disarm conditionally on the international control of armaments. This is primarily aimed at Hitlerite Germany which she declares -cannot be trusted to fulfil its promises mot to rearm.

The Petit Parisien's Geneva correspondent, explaining why France must ■demand control, says: “Now Hiuer has accepted the MacDonald plan the German delegation is trying to transfer to France the responsibility lor hampering the Disarmament Conference. Therefore France must show willingness to /disarm but must insist on control.''

Augurs Well for Economic Conference AMERICAN OPINION IN EUROPE Received Monday, 9.50 p.m. WASHINGTON', May 21. The informal European approval of the Mussolini peace plan was hailed by United States officials on Sunday as an indication of the increasing international harmony, auguring well for the London Economic Conference and the arms reduction parly. Danger Fast DISPERSAL OF WAR CLOUD BRITAIN’S SERVICES LONDON, May 21.. Mr. J. H. Thomas, speaking at an .Empire Day celebration at Derby, said that last week the world was perilously near to a war crisis. There was never .a moment when we ought to be more thankful that the danger had passed. No nation had contributed more to the dispersal of the clouds than Britain. Hitlerism in Action DANGER TO WORLD PEACE. LABOUR MANIFESTO ISSUED. PARIS, May 21. , The executive of the International .Federation of Trade Unions, in a manffesto, protests against the unprecedented acts of terrorism and barbarism by Hitlerism, and urges the workers of all nations to realise the grave dangers of international Labour, world peace, and civilisation constituted by -the fantastic nationalism and reaction, presumptuously represented by Italian and German Fascism .as a new social order.