FRANCE’S FOREIGN POLICY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 4 January 1927, Page 5

FRANCE’S FOREIGN POLICY

HOLY SEE’S APPROVAL

(By Kleetr o Telßgre.pt>.—Copyright.) (Published in “The Timet. ”)

LONDON. 2nd Jan

The “Times” Paris correspondent says that unusual interest attached to a speech by Papal Nuncio Magliune at M. Doumergue’s new year reception to the Diplomatic Corps. Nuncio :.Maglione, obviously instructed by the Holy See, proclaimed the Pope’s approval of France's policy resulting in the Pact of Locarno and Germany’s entry into the League, of Nations.- This is a remarkable testimony to M. Bviand, and will embarrass the Catholic and Nationalist press, to which his policy is distasteful.

REVIEW BY M. BRTAND

(Received 4th Jan., 9.45 a.m.)

PARIS, 3rd Jan

M. Jb'iand in a statement to newspapers reviewing the events of 1926, said the principal merit, of the Locarno Pact was that it had been confirmed by an agreement. f.*;ely entered into. The Halo-German Treaty bad been drafted in ineproachable terms, and had become part of tlm general peace system of which tiie League of Nations was the depository guarantor. The French people did not desire in any way to oppose the Chinese people’:' emancipation movement. Friyioo would not interfere, in Chinese internal politics and was sure, in this policy, to find herself in agreement with tiie signatories of the Washington ngt cement.

.M. Cleineneeau declined the mpiest of the "Echo dc Paris’’ to eoinme.nt on the expected evacuation of the Rhineland. He said he would not have waited to he asked if he. had thought he could usefully say anything in the cruel circumstances they were now passing through, lie concluded : "Excuse this opinion of a dead man who has seen his own funeral. ’•