SECURITY PACT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19406, 16 February 1925, Page 7

SECURITY PACT

GERMANY’S CO-OPERATION NECESSARY. DR LUTHER’S DEDUCTIONS. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright, BERLIN, February 13, A significant contribution to the discussion on the vital question of French, security was made by the Chancellor (Dr Luther) in a speech, in which he declared that no security pact could endure without Germany’s co-operation, which could not be obtained under the pressure of prolonged occupation. It was impossible to link up the problem of the evacuation of the Cologne zone with other questions with which it had nothing to do.—Reuter,

QUESTION IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. DEFINITE STATEMENT BY MR CHAMBERLAIN. LONDON, February 12. In the House of Commons Mr J. Wedg* wood (Lab.) asked whether the Govern* ment was considering the new pact of alliance and security with France, and whether Parliament would be consulted before the nation was in any way com* mitted to an alliance involving the risla of war. Mr Chamberlain replied that tha Government had entered into no negotiations with any country for a separate pact and was engaged in considering the question raised by the Geneva Protocol. The Government would not commit the country to the Protocol or any fresh obligation of comparable character without the assent of Parliament.—Reuter.