Evening star., 1924-09-09
PARIS OWN PEACE
PLAN PUT FORWARD
Most Elaborate Proposal Yet
Drawn to Be Submitted to
League Tomorrow.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOwRER.
Special Dispstch to The Star and the Chica,
Daily News

Special Dispatch to The Star and the Chicago
Daily News.
GENEVA. September 9.-France has
taken the lead in formulating a COM
plete peace plan.
French plans are affirmative and
constructive. They will be formally
presented to the commission on Wed
nesday and they will almost Ger - lily
form the basis Of all further discus
sion. Meanwhile it is being expound-
ed informally to certain assembly
leaders and large measure of sup
port already is assured.
This plan. which certainly is the
most pretentious peace project ever
fostered by any government, has been
explained to the correspondent by the
French delegate, Paul Boncour, as
fOllows:
Three Problems InseparabIe.
1. France considers the three
problems, arbitration. security and
disarmament wholly inseparable
There can be no question, for example,
of accepting an arbitration scheme
unless security and disarmament also
are assured.
2. France desires to keep entirely
to the covenant and to erect no super
structure on the existing League of
Nations. At the sam etime she in
sists that 1t is necessary to have a
supplementary text developing and
clarifying the principles of the cove
nant.
8. The leagues draft of the treaty
of mutual assistance on which two
years laborious effort have been ex-
pended Is accepted by Is States and
rejected by 3; therefore, it Is by no
means defunct, although 1t obviously
requires radical revision. France
proposes several fundamental changes
in this treaty. which it hopes will
then be acceptable to every one.
Paris Accepts Arbitration.
4. France accepts and desires to
insert in the treaty the principle OF
compulsory arbitration.
S. For the complicated section of
the treaty which attempts to define
aggression France would substitute
the feature of the so-called American
plan, design ating the aggressor SIM
ply as one who refuses arbitration.
s. Sanctions against the aggressor
must be collective, immediate and
automatic but all states need not
participate in them to the same de-
gree. Indeed, France proposes three
categories of signatories - those
willing to intervene with their army
only the navy for purposes Of eco
nomic blockade and those willing
merely to give financial and economic
support. This suggestion. it Is felt,
meets the principal objections hither-
to made to the draft of the treaty
and enables each state TO contribute
to the cause Of world peace IN accord
ance with it's resources ar d desires.
Publicity for Treaties.
7. States which consider them
selves particularly menaced may con-
clude particular defensive treaties.
but these treaties would bear abso-
lutely no resemblance to pre-war al
liances, for they would be registered
publicly with the league and would
be required to have the approval of
the league council. They would be
open to any one to Join. Thus Ger
join the Franco-Czech treaty or the
Franco-Polish treaty.
y. Regarding disarmament, three
stages are foreseen by the treaty of
Versailles: first, disarmament of for
mer enemy states under supervision
OF allied military missions; second,
after final inventory showing dis
armament has been properly exc
cuted, transfer of this supervision to
ao oA A>otioHSs tHiFu, COEClu-
sion and execution of a disarmament
convention between other states and
members of the league, thus remov.
ing special servitude from former
enemy states, making all equal again
8. The provisions of the draft
treaty regarding arbitration and Sc
curity are to become effective only
when a general agreement has been
negotiated and executed.
Such is the French peace plan. All
who have been privileged to hear it
pay tribute to it's logic and clarity.
Some delegates believe it's success al
ready Is assured, but the assumption
seems premature
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