DISARMAMENT PLAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 152, 17 September 1927, Page 9

DISARMAMENT PLAN

NEW FRENCH SCHEME PREPARATORY INQUIRY By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 12.15 p.m. GENEVA, Friday. M. Paul Boncour, speaking in the committee which is considering disarmament, declared that the development of arbitration had reduced the fear of war, but so far it was insufficient. Security must precede disarmament, and to real' . this the preparatory disarmament commission must define a guarantee. He was convinced that such a reorganisation of security to ensure disarmament would enable special security agreements inspired by the covenant. The preparatory commission must request the States objecting to the Protocol to define their objections, which lias not yet been done. He denied that the Protocol was Continental. Such a character would be contrary to the spirit of the League. He moved a resolution on the lines he had indicated. —A. and N.Z. i

TREATY VITIATED

M. MILLERAND ON LOCARNO LONDON, Thursday. The Paris correspondent of “The Times” says M. Millerand, in the course of a senatorial election speech at Orne, said the Treaty of Locarno had been vitiated, because France regarded it as a means toward consolidating a new Europe, while Germany believed It would enable her to upset Europe. But Germany could not lay her hands on Alsace-Lorraine, or the Danzig corridor, or Upper Silesia, without setting the world on fire. France, said M. Millerand, must remain strong in order to remain respected.—A. and N.Z.