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Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1925, Page 2

Vl iheir lace value, the reports from l.ocanm mean, says a contemporary. Unit an atmosphere of real peace has •il length been created in Europe. and that happier days arc dawning for the war-tried and impoverished nations which have so long heeii regarding one another with fear and suspicion. 11

‘•ertainlv i.- a victory for peace that Germany is entering the League of Nations. the invidious distinctions involved in her non-membership raised in themselves a threat to Eurncuii peace. As it- terms mv outlined, the Pact t< a clear-cut agreement on vital principles. ami one "hi Ii is iinlikclv to raise future difficulties of interpretation. It provides a cnmprcheltsive machinery of arbitration, and the use ~f this mach-

inery on any occasions when disputes arise is enforced by binding mutual guarantees, Some more or less diflieult questions of detail have been held over tor consideration and adjustment amongst others, (.Vrmuny's obligation lIS it member of the League in open her territorv in the pas-age of troops, and the nmtrol aircraft construction in Germany. The agreement "f the Powers on I lie Pact itself, however. plainly implies that they are mutually inniideiii that all remaining questions oi detail can be -aI isfactnrilv settled. Here ami in other Empire countries, full details of what has agreed upon at 1.0-nrno "ill be availed w ith all the more interest since ihe I lorn iII inils lln ,p llbi will he invited in i-se iate thcni'clvcs with Britain in whatever gnarnnlres -lie is giving. ft had I ice n indicat.i d that Britain would concern herself onlv - ith I lie Rhine B'oillier. hut ill" news implies that she "ill give guarantees relating not only to that frontier, hut in the treaties mto v. hieh (b'l in.'inv is to enter w ith Poland and ( "eehn-Slova k ift. S'line. a I leu.-i . <it ihe I lominioiis ptrohably "ill be reluctant in pa rt iri|i;i !e in glinraiilees ~| ihi.- scope. Imt the "hole question Is one jo le eoCs|,l,.|-c,| ill light of full ami detailed inlol'lll.'lI 1011.