AGAINST THE PACT.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1925, Page 7

AGAINST THE PACT.

VIEWS OF SOUTH AFRICA. NOTE OF WARNING SOUNDED. °PREOCCUPIED IN EUROPE” By Telegraph —Pr»M Awm —Copyright. Received June 19, 12.15 a.m. Capetown, June 18. Commenting on the Anglo-French security pact, the Cape Times says: “A word of Warning may be given to British commentators who are apt to assume the attitude of British sympathisers in the Dominions to foe one of automatic acquiescence. The thesis is that it is of unquestionable interest to the Dominions to join the British Government in such an agreement with France. The very opposite is the truth. “There is a very strong body of opinion in the Dominions which is convinced that the tendency of the British Foreign Office to be intensely preoccupied with European affairs is a disastrous tendency from the point of view of the true welfare of the British Empire. It is ludicrous to say that the security of France is the main interest of the various communities of the Empire. The British Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Austen Chamberlain) should realise that opinion in South Africa without distinction of race is strongly against any such commitment.”