STATE OF EUROPE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 4 January 1924, Page 7

STATE OF EUROPE

FRENCH PRESS OPINIONS

BY OABLB—PEIfIS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGffiI

Received Jan. 4, 11.10 a.m

PARIS, Jan. 3

' The apprehensions of the British and Italian press that the FrancoCzech treaty will ultimately divide Europe into two armed camps has evoked replies from th© French press.

Le Journal envisages as a result of the treaty a new Europe based on Franco-Belgian and Littfe Entente alliances, and improved relations with Poland and the Baltic States, and says that the coming conference of Belgrade and Esthonian Latvian Customs Union are steps in the same direction.

L'Echo says that the aim of France should be to organise the Continent against any attempt at hegemony, and that it will be achieved if the" small States in East and Central Europe consolidate permanently outside Germanism.—Reuter.