ITS FATE UNCERTAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1925, Page 7

ITS FATE UNCERTAIN.

GERMANY AND THE PACT. TANGLE OF PARTY VIEWS. kATTFK'ATION PROBABLE. F Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 3, 8.5 p.m. Beilin. Nov. 2. The fate of the Locarno pact is Uncertain in ihe present tangle of party Vie we. The Chancellor (Dr. Luther) and the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Dr. von Stresemann) are hopeful that the Nationalists will relent and enable the Reichstag to ratify the treaty, but the Socialists are pressing for a dissolution, arguing that they are unwilling to cast their votes in support of Dr. Luther and ratification because it virtually means enabling the Nationalists to shed the responsibility attaching to their original pact proposals. While it is generally conceded that the majority of the Germans are in favour of ratification, it is felt that a plebiscite thereon is impracticable. It would be submerged in a welter of domestic side-issues. Present indications point to Cabinet signing the treaty on December 1, thus casting on their opponents the responsibility- for flouting world opinion wheir the Reichstag meets'. Dr. von Stresemann, speaking at Dresden, expounded the treaty in terYna sb unusual as to attract attention. He ►aid' Mr. Austen Chamberlain (British: Minister for Foreign Affairs) declared to him that the British navy and army would stand at Germany's disposal if France aggressively over-stepped/ the frontier.