LORD CURZON'S SPEECH.

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15360, 8 October 1923, Page 5

LORD CURZON'S SPEECH.

AROUSES FRENCH IRE.

PARIB PRESS COMMENTS. OLD CONTROVERSIES REVIVED, 0 Australian and N.Z. Cable, Assn. Received October 8, il.3(r a.m. PARIS, October 7. Lord Curzon's speech has astonished and angered the French Press. The Figaro says Mr Stanley Bald-

win's speech revealed the original thinker, and sincere friend of France; Lord Curzon's revealed a man embittered at the failure of his policy. The speech does not improve the prospects of a settlement. The Echo do Paris' says the speech will revive all the past controversies, because it implicitly advises the Germans to hold "out.

The Matin remarks that Lord Curzon not merely differed from the French views; but was offensive. The Gaulois observes' that it was a singular speech, and brutally, threw oil on the fire.

The Petit Parisien states that Lord Curzon's chief anxiety was apparently not to improve the happy effects of Mr Stanley Baldwin's intervention. The Oeuvre says the speech as usual was extremely disagreeable, and some parts' were frankly hostile. LONDON, October 7.

The Sunday Times' Paris correspondent says' the question now being asked in Paris is: How can one Cabinet contain two statesmen who express such divergent views as Mr Stanley Baldwin and Lord Curzpn. It is questionable whether even Mr Lloyd George had ever to sustain such a torrent of contemptuous abuse as Lord Curzon has brought upon himself. Franco has felt for . several months that Lord Curzon aspires to beoome the mediator between France and Germany. Franoe will not have Lord Curzon as' mediator.

Reynolds' Newspaper says that plain 'speaking is expected from.the Dominion Premiers this week ..during the discussion on foreign affairs. The Dominion delegates have one dominant view, that it is' useless discussing the past. The task is to help the Empire and the world back to-normal conditions. • ,':'.'"