FEARS IN PARIS
POSSIBLE BERLIN PLANS RHINELAND OCCUPATION MAY APPEAL TO ENGLAND LOCARNO TREATY CITED
(Fife. Tel, Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. March 4, 11.50 a.m.) GENEVA, March 3. It is learnt on the highest authority that France will formally ask Britain in the next few days what she is prepared to do if Germany rearms the demilitarised Rhineland.
It is stated that the French Foreign Minister, M. Flandin, and M. Paul Boneour will explain that France will consider a violation of the Bhineland the gravest step which Germany has yet contemplated. Unless there, is a' protest all of France's alliances would, ipso facto, be broken.
The French Government is believed to have decided in such an eventuality to ask for the application of all the provisions of the? Lacarno Treaty, includ-. ing the French occupation of the left bank of the Rhine and also to seek the heli) of Britain and Italy as signatories of the Locarno Treaty. ' France feels that Hie fact that Britain asked and obtained an assurance of -French help if attacked in the Mediterranean entitles France to, ask" for Britain's help if German troops march into the Rhineland.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18955, 4 March 1936, Page 5
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