FRENCH DRAFT TREATY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19929, 24 April 1928, Page 11

FRENCH DRAFT TREATY.

RENUNCIATION OF WAR. " ' «—- LONDON PRESS CRITICISM. REASON FOR GERMAN UMBRAGE. Australian and N.2. Press Association. (Received April 23, 6.55 p.m.) LONDON, April 23. The diplomatic correspondent of tho Daily Telegraph says some surprise and a great deal of disappointment is felt in British circles at the wholly uncompromising character of the French alternative draft treaty for the outlawry of war. Tho proposals of Mr. F. B. Kellogg, United States Secretary cf State, and the reservations of M. Briand, French Foreign Minister, emphasise the wide divergencies between Washington and Paris, and cut the heart out of the American project. The prospects of Britain or another third party being able to secure an agreement with Washington and Paris are very slender. The paper says the opening isentences of Article 1 are evidently intended to remind the Locarno Powers of their special obligations under the Versailles Treaty, and the Rhineland Pact in respect to the violation of the demilitarised Rhineland zone. It shows how ineradicable is the French distrust of Germany anH explains why the German press has taken immediate umbrage.