BRITAIN'S FOREIGN POLICY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18891, 13 December 1924, Page 11

BRITAIN'S FOREIGN POLICY.

THE GENEVA PROTOCOL.

GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE.

DISCUSSION IN FRANCE. Br Telegraph—Pi'sss Association— Copyright. (Received 7.55 p.m.) Rratet, LONDON. Dec. 11. In reply to m question in tho House of Commons to clay by Mr. Arthur Poneonby, Labour member for Sheffield, who was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affair. 1 in the late Labour Government, the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, stated that the Government was communicating with the Governments of the Dominions. Ho hoped to make an announcemen shortly regarding proposals for a preliminary inquiry into a system of con sultation on matters of foreign policy.

Sir Newton Moore, Conservative mem Ler for Richmond, asked whether tb Government proposed to alter the Genevp protocol so as to ensure that such a question a! the maintenance of a "White Australia " should not be submitted to review by the League of Nations ?

Mr. Baldwin said the Government's policy regarding tho protocol had not yet been settled, but questions of the kind referred to were not likely to be <ver]ooked.

A message from Faris states that Britain's attitude toward the Geneva protocol is much discussed by tho press, which seizes the occasion to revive the question of obtaining definite guarantees for France's security.

The Borne correspondent of. Lo Matin asserts tnat Mr. Austen Chamberlain, British >!ini?-ffr for Foreign Affairs, staled in an interview that there was only a very Blight chance of the Dominions accepting the protocol and even a slighter chance of them agreeing to an alliance with France and Belgium.