SEEKING WORLD PEACE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21920, 4 April 1933, Page 7

SEEKING WORLD PEACE

THE FOUR-POWER PLAN STILL UNDER DISCUSSION (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, March 31. It is authoritatively stated that the text published in the newspapers of the Four Power Plan represents the first tentative draft discussed at Rome, and does not fully correspond with the text subsequently .discussed at Paris. The project is still under discussion and examination in the respective capitals, and cannot at present be said to exist in any definite form. TEXT OF THE PACT. PARIS, March 31. Le Matin publishes what it claims to be the full text of the proposed Mac-Donald-Mussolini pact. It is largely as already forecast, but specifies that Germany, Prance, Britain and Italy should confirm the principle of revision of treaties, in accordance with the Leagaj Covenant, in cases where critical situations may otherwise arise. BRITISH NOTE TO FRANCE. PARIS, April 2. Lord Tyrrell (British Ambassador) handed M. Boncour a Note- from the British Government in reference to the Mussolini Plan. It is understood that it formulates suggestions to facilitate agreement. FRENCH VIEW OF PLAN. PARIS, April 2. (Received April 3, at 5.5 p.m.) M. Jouvcnal, Ambassador at Rome, fresh from his conversations with Signor Mussolini, arrived to consult his Government in regard to the Four-Power Pact. In a statement to the press he emphasised that there was no question of a directorate of the four nations imposing the will on the rest of the -world. “ The pact is an insurance policy against the risk of failure of the Disarmament Conference. When the four have agreed it will be incumbent on them to win over the Council of the League and the Assembly. It is clear that the state of Europe would become alarming if the Disarmament Conference broke up, leaving Europe divided into hostile camps, and to this were added a demand for a revision of frontiers.”