UNKNOWN

Northern Advocate, 18 February 1926, Page 5

UNKNOWN

GERMANY AND THE POWERS LEAGUE COUNCIL COMPOSITION. PROPOSAL KEPT SECRET. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, -February 17. j The Berlin correspondent of the “Times” says: “While Sir Eric Drummond’s conversations with Dr. Strcsomann are proceeding satisfactorily, the proposal to assign permanent seats on the League Council to Poland, Spain and Brazil simultaneously with Germany has caused a deep and unpleasant impression. Official circles resent the, manner in which the proposal was. launched, also the purpose prompting it. They consider it strange that Sir Austen Chamberlain and M. Briand should have discussed the proposition without imparting tjie slightest information to the partner concerned. , “ Germany discovered the proposal by the purest accident. It was not mentioned at Locarno, where it was tacitly understood that Germany was to enter the League as it was then constituted. The new move implies that Germany is mistrusted by the other members of the League, who deem it necessary to counteract Germany’s influence. Inasmuch as Germany has given no grounds for these assumptions, it is not surprising that the mistrust is mutual.”—Times. j

M. HYMANS RESIGNS. EXPLICIT REASON GIVEN. (Received 11.30 a.m.) BRUSSELS, February 17. M. Hymans - has resigned from the membership of the League of Nations Council, stating - that in the present situation of international affairs the Foreign Minister of - each country should personally take charge of the discussions at Geneva. —A. and N.Z.