LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 2, 10 September 1927, Page 5

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

THE POLISH PACT.

WHITTLED DOWN FORMULA. Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z, Cable Assn GENEVA, Setpembcr n. The mountain has brought forth a mouse. The Coles have accepted a whittlod-down formula, acceptable to Sir Austen Chamberlain, M. I’.naud and Dr. S'tresemaim, and the excitement of the last two days has passed, but' the Dutch protocol proposition is «tiil to be tackled. The Polish proposals, as emended, were handed to the heads of the Uocarno Powers, They were: All wars of aggression arc to remain prohibitod- r ilie As&ciiibly bus declined it obligatory that member,-, of the League conform with this principle wherefore the assembly calls upon thorn to conclude non-aggcrssion pacts, inspired by the idea that all pacific means ought to be employed, to settle mutual differences, whatsoever their nature.” This version has increased rather than diminished the obligations of the Locarno signatories. The British delegation confirms this, but a Warsaw cor respondent declares that the latest demands are entirely unacceptable to the Powers subscribing to the modified pact. ■SECURITY, NOT GUARANTEES. Press Association —Copyright, ustralian and N.Z. Cable Assn. (Received 10.20 a.m.) GENEVA, September 9. The public galleries were packed when the Belgian delegate, M. Vanderveldt, resumed the debate. He deplored the division of the Assembly into two camps. The Assembly, he said, owed to itself the duty of considering the Dutch and other proposals based on the principles of the Protocol in order, to record their opinion against war. They should proceed slowly and prudently as an incomplete solution would be dangerous. The Disarmament Conference had not failed, for the Powers now recognised that there was not merely a moral hut a juridical obligation to disarm. It was now essential to prepare _ a solution of tho problem leaving its execution to the nations. It would be impossible for the nations to remain stationary. They must either disarm or continue in a wild pursuit of armaments leading inevitably to war. The various peoples wanted, not merely guarantees, but conscious security.