LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
MEETING OF COUNCIL. SHORT AGENDA PAPER. POLAND AND DANZIG AT ISSUE. (Australian and N.zr. r:ablc Assn.) LONDON, June 4. The meeting of Mr Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with M. Briand, French Foreign Minister, is expected lo be the most significant feature of the 3-ith session of the Council of the. League of Nations, which is to open at. Geneva on Monday. The session will probably conclude in four daysT'm only items on the agenda are the unending squabble between Poland and the Free City of Dantzig, and the question of the treatment of minorities in the Little States created by the Treaty of Versailles. It is understood that Mr Chamberlain would not have attended but for the opportunity of conferring with M. Briand regarding the terms of the French reply lo Germany's proposals for a security pact. The French press asserts that the British Prime Minister, Mr Stanley Baldwin, and Mr Chamberlain are willing to bind Britain to give military support to France and Belgium in case of German aggression, but that they are not willing to pledge her concerning Poland and Czccho-Slovakia..
This statement, however, is not confirmed in London in such an explicit form.
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Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16512, 5 June 1925, Page 7
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