Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-13
Pardon Quintet
WhoAidedinRum
Ring Round Up
ENGLAND FINALLY
REJECTS GENEVA
PEACE PROTOCOL


tional disarmament has received a set
back is the impression at Geneva to-
night as sequel to today's memoir
able meeting Of the council Of the
League Of Nations, when England and
all her dominions except Ireland re-
jected the Geneva peace protocol.
DR.. Edouard Benes, the Czechoslo-
vakian foreign minister. who is the
official reporter of the council on the
protocol, informed the Associated
Press tonight that he will introduce
resolution tomorrow that the entire
problem Of peace and arbitration be
referred to the next assembly of the
league. This examination by the as
sembly, he declared, should naturally
include study of Mr.. Chamberlain's
recommendation today that the league
covenant be supplemented by special
defensive treaties between nations
whose differences might lead to a re-
newal OF war. treaties whose sole OBJ
ject would be the maintenance of I'M
broken peace.
Great Britain today not only threw
the protocol overheard. but declared
it was hopeless to try to rescue 1t
with the idea Of successful revision.
Austen Chamberlain, the British sec
rotary for foreign affairs. stood rigidly
against. compulsory arbitration of
all disputes. which is one of the main
features of the protocol. and, alluding
to the immigration issue, which was
indirectly raised by Japan in connec-
ton with the protocol, asserted that
British objections to compulsory arbi-
tration had been increased because the
. protocol had weakened those league
covenant stipulations which were de-
signed to prevent interference by the
league in matters Of domestic jurisdic-
ton.
He condemned the protocol because
it destroyed the balance and spirit of
the covenant and because, instead of
emphasizing friendly cooperation, it
stressed too much the preservation Of
peace by organizing for war on the
largest scale.
or the other countries reported on
the council, France stood solidly by
the covenant In defensive address by
M. BRAND, yet offered a kind of well
come te Mr.. Chamberlain's substitute
suggestion Of special treaties:s Allur-
in to Frances friends. like Poland and
-Slovakia, he insisted that such
a system of alliances must never cast
aside certain nations who also had
/ the right to be protected against war.
Italy, through Vittorio Scialia, for
mer foreign minister, came out fatty
for Mr. Chamberlain's proposal of spe-
IL lit
Japan, announced that Toxic had not
completed examination Of the proto-
col.
Belgium saw in the British proposal
a way to stabilize peace while await
ing attainment of general security.
A frequent opinion heard today was
that the last league assembly under
the leadership of liberals like Ramsay
Macdonald and NJ. Herriot had gone
too far in the direction of idealism.
There was rather mournful ad-
mission that the. world as at present
constituted and with existing pollti-
cal conditions must content itself WIN
lesser things than the ideals behind
the Geneva protocol.
Many Of the French frankly admit
ted that Engla nd's alliance suggestion
meant the maintenance OF military
force in order that the powers In an
alliance might be able to preserve the
worlds peace.
Among the spokesman Of the small
or states the fear was voiced that any
grouping Of the great powers would
Inevitably mean inequality for the
lesser countries, who found salvation
in the equality furnished by the pro
tocol and in the universally of its
assistance.