FRANCE'S DEMANDS
BEFORE DISARMAMENT
GUARANTEES OF SECURITY
BEITISH ATTITUDE
United Press Association—By Electric TeleEraph—Copyright (Received March 2"6, 2.40 p.m.) LONDON, March 25. Tho "Daily Telegraph?1 states that the Disarmament Committee of Cabinet cm Monday will probably draft "a series t of questions to France regarding her demands for fresh guarantees of security. Britain, is not prepared to extend the existing guarantees under Locarno of Franco-German and BelgoGerman frontiers to other frontiers or to acquiesce in automatic sanctions arising from an abitrary definition of aggression, but is willing to consider practical suggestions for guarantees. Strict observers of the proposed disarmament convention state that the risks and sacrifices involved for Britain, and the Empire by guaranteeing the convention would only be incurred in return for substantial offers of disarmament by other Powers. The refusal by the major Powers to scale down their air fleet strengths to the British level might be held to render the demand for British guarantees unjustifiable. ■ ■ m
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 72, 26 March 1934, Page 10
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159FRANCE'S DEMANDS Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 72, 26 March 1934, Page 10
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