ANGLO-FRENCH AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1924, Page 3

ANGLO-FRENCH AFFAIRS

AUSTRALIAN AND N Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION KTATEAI KNT IX COMMONS. LONDON. .June 2l>. In the Commons Air MacDonald was questioned in reference to a statement attributed to M. Ifomott in an interview with tile “Indepemlant.s Beige” which aroused a furious controversy in the Franco-British press that in the event of a pro-meditated German attack he had received a linn ] romise from Britain in 15)11 that slie would he on tlie side of France and Belgium, and had the assurance of a firm pact binding the three countries. He complained that his conversations with M. Herriott had been grossly misrepresented and falsified in certain licwsm papers. His communication of 22 .lime. ” and his statement of 23rd. June had covered the whole ground of conversations. The.reports mentioned in the question were based on either confusion or imagination. There was absolutely no kind of undertaking in regard to a defensive military alliance so far its the conversations with M. Her- 1 riott were concerned. PACT PROPOSED. -* r (deceived this day at 11.25 a.in.) I .ON DON. June 2d. Widespread interest i' evinced in Norman Angel’s interview with M. Herriot, published in the "New Leader.” M. Herriot explains the adoption of the new policy giving Franco security against the German menace. AT. Herriot proposes that the Allies enter a pact of mutual assistance under articles ten, sixteen and twenty-one of the League of Nations, Germany to he subsequently allowed to become a party to the pact. Continuing, AL Herriot says:—"l do not merely mean Germany to become a member of the League. I mean that it he open to her to join the Allied pact. AVe shall accord Germany the protections embodied in the pact if she assumes its obligations. Alv statement has astonished you. 1 will tell yon something which will astonish \ou more. Nollet, though a soldier, stands by the principle of the inclusion of Germany in the pact.”