ANGLO-FRENCH DISCORD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18117, 15 June 1922, Page 7

ANGLO-FRENCH DISCORD.

BELGIUM'S ATTITUDE. ROLE OF CONCILIATOR. MILITARY PACT DEFENSIVE By Telegraph—Pros* Association— Copyright. (Received 7.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. BRUSSELS. Jun* 13M. Jaspar, Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs, addressing Parliament, suggested that Belgium by reason of her moral power, geographical situation and history, was best placed to art as a conciliator within the Entente. The Franco-Belgian military convention was purely defensive, and Belgium was seeking a similar agreement with Britain. THE HAGUE CONFERENCE. FRANCE TO ATTEND. A and N.Z. . PARIS. June 13. The French Cabinet has decided to be represented at the Hague Congress, but will give Parliament an opportunity to express its opinion beforehand. M. Andre Tardieu, the noted publicist, writing in the Echo Nationale, says that a comparison of the British and French Notes shows that both countries are not at all in agreement. He reproaches M. Poincare with not taking a definite position. M. Tardieu opposes France going to The Hague. Paris newspapers publish extracts from a speech which M. Paul Deschanel intended to deliver in the course of an interpellation on M. Poincare's policy, but death intervened. M. Deschanel thought that French and British interests were inseparable, but he opposed British policy Britain's traditional policy was to try to maintain the Continental equilibrium by supporting the weaker against the stronger; it did not always succeed, and more than once, without wishing to do so, it imperilled the world's peace.