SACRED DIVIDING LINE

Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1927, Page 7

SACRED DIVIDING LINE

FRANCO-GERMAN FRONTIER KEEPING PEACE OF EUROPE DAMPER ON TEUTON’S HOPE By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Aug. 31, 7 p.m. London, Aug. 30. Sir Austen Chamberlain arrived in Paris en route to Geneva and had a ebat with M. Briand regarding the programme, in which connection, as usual, they reported complete agreement. M. Briand in the evening gave a speech at a banquet to the Inter-Par-liamentary Union. Unusually for him, he spoke from manuscript. M. Briand said: “I do not hesitate to proclaim that the German statesmen showed great courage and the real spirit of peace when they consented to the Locarno Treaty. They are entitled to expect we will continue the great work in solidarity with all the signatories. Moreover, all stations ought to be permeated with the idea that the frontier settled by the International Convention is something saered and must be respected without reservation. "ft is high time to realise that peace for the civilised world is not a luxury, but a vital necessity. The cause of peace is harder to serve than the cause of war. It comprises thankless duties and more obscure tasks and calls for deeds less glorious.” Reports from Berlin show that this made cold reading in Germany. Dr. Strescmann and the delegation departed •n an atmosphere of pessimism.