EVENTS OF PAST TEAR

Taranaki Daily News, 5 January 1927, Page 7

EVENTS OF PAST TEAR

FRENCH PREMIER’S REVIEW MERIT OF LOCARNO PACT A GUARANTEE OF PEACE By Telegraph—Tress Assn.—Copyright. Paris, Jan. 3. M. Briaiid, in a statement to the newspapers reviewing the events cf 1926, said the principal merit of the Locarno Pact wae that it had been confirmed by an agreement freely entered into. The treaty wae wrongly said to have been obtained by force. Such a system offered a solid guarantee of peace. The Italo-German Treaty had been drafted in irreproachable terms, and had become part of the general peace system, of which the League of Nations was the depository and guarantor. The French people did not desire in any way to oppose the Chinese people’s emancipation movement. France would not interfere, in Chinese. internal polities, and was sure in this policy to find herself in agreement with the signatories of the Washington Agreement. M. Clemenceau declined the request of the Echo de Paris to comment on the expected evacuation of the Rhineland. He stated that he would not have waited to be asked if he had thought he could usefully say anything in the cruel circumstances they were now passing through. He concluded: “Excuse this opinion of a dead man, who has seen his own funeral.”