EUROPEAN PACT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21462, 8 April 1933, Page 11

EUROPEAN PACT

ATTITUDE OF FBANCE SMALLER NATIONS' RIGHTS DEMAND FOR EQUALITY CHAMBER'S CONFIDENCE VOTE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received Amil 7, 5.15 p.m.) LONDON. April G A message from Paris states that the French Prime iClinister, M. Daladier, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies, defined France's attitude toward Signor Mussolini's plan for a four-Power pact in Europe. He said she woidd not countenance a directory of the great Powers laying down the law to the smaller nations. The French solution of the European problem was equality of nations. Any new pact must bo a sequel to the League's Covenant and the BriandKellogg and Locarno pacts. The Socialist leader, M. Blum, said his party disapproved of a four-Power pact because it introduced oligarchy into international relations. M. Franklin Bouillon said a revision of the treaties meant a spoliation of France's allies. Germany should never be conceded the right to rearm. The Chamber passed a vote of confidence in the Government by 439 to 107. In London to-day M. Titulesco, Rumanian Foreign Minister, had an interview with the Prime Minister and Sir John Simpn on the subject of the proposed four-Power pact.