SOLE SECURITY OF PEACE

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12075, 28 February 1925, Page 5

SOLE SECURITY OF PEACE

POLAND FEARS EFFECT OF FRAN CO-BRITISH PACT.

“GUARANTEE OF WAR.” By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright WARSAW, February 26. Poland’s anxiety in regard to the possibility of the conclusion of an An-glo-French guarantee pact in the event of the rejection of the Geneva Protocol was voioed by the Foreign Minister (M. Skrynski), who expressed the opinion that the conclusion of such a pact to the prejudice of the Franco-Polish Alliance was impossible. A pact apparently guaranteeing the peace of the English Channel, while leaving the whole of the rest of the world at the mercy of events, would not he a guarantee of peaoe but of a Dfvital war. An Anglo-French guarantee pact could only be understood as an element in the vast edifice in which the Fran-co-Polish pact. would also take its place. The best thing would be to establish a general guarantee of security based on a general combination. Any other solution would bring Europe to suicide.

LABOUR OPINION MILITARY PACTS OPPOSED. PROTOCOL UPHELD. Reuter’s Telegram. (Received February 27, 8.10 p.m.) LONDON, February 26. The Labour Party and the Trade Union Congress jointly carried a resolution upholding the Geneva Protocol, and opposing the substitution of any form of military alliance or guarantee.