MEDITERRANEAN LOCARNO
GUARANTEE OF SECURITY FRENCH PROPOSAL TO BRITAIN DANGER'S IN THE SUGGESTION. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, Dec. 24. The Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent says that the most important French proposal to Britain suggests international guarantees for France in the Mediterranean, in other words a Mediterranean Locarno, in return for which France would reduce her large programme. Alternatively France sug- 1 * gests placing the Mediterranean under international statutes. The former would be highly dangerous, because it would involve Britain and the Dominions in fresh and unprecedented war commitments, implying intervention in a Franco-Italian conflict. The latter is impracticable, as it would restrict Britain's freedom to concentrate in the Mediterranean whatever force might be necessary to safeguard inter-Empire communications.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1929, Page 13
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119MEDITERRANEAN LOCARNO Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1929, Page 13
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