TREATY OF LOCARNO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19196, 9 December 1925, Page 11

TREATY OF LOCARNO.

ATTITUDE OF DOMINIONS. COMMUNICATIONS PASSING. A- and N.Z. LONDON. Dec. 7. In the House of Commons Mr. G. M. Garro-Jones, Liberal Member for South Hackney, asked whether, in View of the fact that nearly nine weeks had elapsed since the Treaty of Locarno was initialled, the Secretary of State for the Dominions, Mr. L. C. M. S. Amery had received a definite answer enabling him to amplify his reply relative to the Dominions' ratification of the pact. The Under-Secretary for the Dominions, Mr. W. G. Ormsby-Gore, said communications were still passing, and it would be premature to make a statement. RUSSIA AND PACT. MOSCOW AND THE LEAGUE, AN " ANTI-SOVIET WEAPON." LONDON. Doc. 2. Moscow still is attacking both the League of Nations and the Locarno Pact, which, says the Riga correspondent of the Times, Soviet politicians continue to describe as an anti-Soviet weapon. "Wo,still consider that the League is not a union of peoples for the general good, but a masked combination of the so-called Great Powers against- the interests of small States, and the Soviet Republics," declares M. Litvinoff, Deputy Foreign Commissar. " The Soviet, therefore, is determined, as hitherto, to remain outside such an organisation." FILM OF THE PACT. AN ALLEGED MONOPOLY. LONDON. Dec. 2. London film distributors, including the Pathe topical agencies, are protesting that a Government official has given i the Gaumont Company exclusive distributing rights of the film depicting the signing of the pact. It is asserted that the Government's desire that the film should have the widest publicity will thus not bo fulfilled. A copy of the film has already been despatched to Australia. GREAT STEP AT LOCARNO. POSITION OF DOMINIONS. LONDON, Dec. 1. Sir Newton Moore, M.P., states that if Sir Austen Chamberlain had waited for the Dominions' unanimous approval before concluding the Locarno Pact, it was doubtful whether the greatest step toward restoring world peace would have been made. Therefore, the Minister left the Dominions free to participate, realising as in the past that where there was the greatest liberty there was the greatest loyalty, especially in emergencies. "I am confident," Sir Newton said, "that when the Dominions discuss the Locarno Pact at an Imperial Conference, or elsewhere, they will unanimously support Mr. Chamberlain's action.