ANGLO-FRENCH RELATIONS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16672, 27 February 1925, Page 5

ANGLO-FRENCH RELATIONS.

SECURITY OF FRANCE. DEADLOCK IN CONVERSATIONS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.! LONDON, Feb. 25. Mr Chamberlain, replying to a question in the Commons, said no undertaking had been given in connection with the security of France which would affect Britain’s freedom of action regarding the evacuation of Cologne. 'Tlie Daily Herald’s Paris correspondent says a, deadlock was reached in Anglo-French conversations with reference to the disarmament of Germany and the evacuation of the Cologne area. The French insist upon linking up both subjects with the question of French security, and are supported in this attitude by General Foch’s pessimistic report- with reference to the dangerous condition of Germany’s armaments. Borne of the conclusions drawn in this report are vigorously combatted by the British military representative in Paris. In consequence of tlie deadlock France welcomes the proposed Allied Conference at Brussels, feeling that with Belgium’s support a stubborn case can be made out against evacuation. ALARM IN POLAND. FOREIGN MINISTER’S VIEWS. (Reuter’s Telegram.) (Received February 27, 11 a.m.) WARSAW, Feb. 26. Poland’s anxiety regarding (lie possibility of tlie conclusion of the AngloFrench guarantee in the event of the rejection of the Genoa protocol lias been voiced! by the Foreign Minister, Skrynski, who expressed the opinion that the conulus’on of such a pact to the prejudice of the Franco-Polish alliance was impossible. The pad apparently guaranteeing peace in the English channel while leaving the whole of the rest of the world at, Hie mercy of events, would not he a guarantee of peace, but of brutal war. The Anglo-French guarantee |xtet could only be understood as an element in a vast edifice in which the Polish pact would also take its place. The best thing would he to establish a general guarantee of security based on a general combination. Any other solution would bring Europe to suicide.