FREEDOM OF ACTION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 6 January 1923, Page 7

FREEDOM OF ACTION

WELCOMED BY FRENC_L<PRESS

ENTENTE, NOT DEAD

Received Jan. 6, 9.5 a.m. ™ , ' PARIS, Jan. 5. Ihe newspapers labei the breakdown of the conference as an "Anglo-French divorce," though Le Journal, on the contrary, says that only friendship remains from the alliance. The Echo de Paris irejoices iii France s liberty to resume independent action. AH the papers emphasise the tact that the Entente is not dead. M. Saurwein, in the Matin, regards the rupture as putting France and Britain in the condition •of the Entente subsisting before the war. The Versailles treaty had hindered each other's action, but France and Britain had now recovered personal liberty. France is not alone. Italy and Belgium had helped to prevent British financiers from handling the European political situation at their own sweet will. M. Saurwein urges the French delegates at Lausanne to content themselves with I watching French financial and economic interests, which will not be difficult, as Turkey will now realise that France signed the treaty in all friendship, and * no longer bound to carry out Loxd Ourzon's designs. \ • . . . Le Matin also declares that Mr Lloyd George was an interpreter of the same fiancial coalition as is Mr Bonar Law, but Mr Lloyd George's idea was to wreck the execution of the peace treaty. - For that purpose he keut the reparations scheme in his pocket, and was satisfied with a compromise. _^VI. Partinax, writing in the Echo de Paris, thinks it was a mistake not to have held a private Anglo-French conference before the nublic conference M. Partinax regards"Britain as isolated, and urges Rome and Brussels to stand with Paris in the maintenance of peace. The Echo de Paris fays: "The question now is how to liquidate the Franco-British partnership to as to imflict the least injury upon two countries which ,are friendly. A week must elapse before M. Poincare will" publicly express his policy. There is no need to regard events too seriousy." Le Journal declares: "Tlie moment for carrying out French policy, has arrived. Let us act in a "friendly way, * without boasting or fear, as befits those who know what aire real moderation and wisdom."

The Petit Journal continues to believe that the Franco-British Entente is an absolute necessity for the lasting peace .of Europe.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' . ,