PEACE IN OUR TIME

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12095, 24 March 1925, Page 5

PEACE IN OUR TIME

FUTURE EVENTS IN EUROPE WILL FRANCE SIDE WITH BRITAIN OR POLAND ? GERMAN PACT PROPOSAL. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 23, 8.15 p.m.) LONDON, March 23. The “Daily Express” states that the week promises to be momentous for the future of Europe. After Mr Austen Chamberlain to-mor-row lias given the House of Commons an indication of the progress ma'de at Geneva, Mr Ramsay Macdonald will champion the 'rejected Geneva scheme, thus committing himself and the Socialist Party to the scheme which the dominions have rejected. M. Herriot is being informed of British views upon security by the French Ambassador in Loudon. M. de Fleuriau; hut M. Herriot’s problem is: Shall he side with Britain, or with Poland, which refuses to consider the German scheme for a security pact as a promising basis for discussion P Germany is suspected of seeking to change her boundary in the East as, fixed by the Treaty of Versailles. ITALY’S SUGGESTION. The “Daily Chronicle” correspondent in Paris states that M. Herriot is not pleased with Signor Mussolini, who recently dramatically intervened in the security imbroglio by offering England a treaty of alliance to the exclusion of Franoe. Mr Austen Chamberlain, as in duty bound, made the offer known to France. The mere suggestion alarmed Franco, and Bet the French Government wondering whether the delay in admitting Germany to an international pact may not bd carried too far, and result in France falling between two stools. The British thesis is that a formula must found- on the basis of the German offer. The possibility of including Germany in a pact is being seriously considered at the Quai d’Orsay. If Germany agrees to a non-aggres-sion pact, the revision of the Polish frontier can at. least be discussed.