Evening star., 1925-09-09
SECURITY PARLEy
F. SET FOR OCTOBER
Optimism Grows Among Al
! lies as Bid to Germany
Is Decided Upon.
BY the Associated Press.

loy lIS AsSONldleu GTebS.
GENEVA, September 9.-Optimism
in allied circles regarding the pros
poets for the reconstruction OF Europe
on a basis Of permanent peace In
agreement with Germany received
new impetus yesterday.
An early meeting between the for
eign ministers of the allied powers
and of Germany to discuss the Sc
curity pact now seems virtually as
sured, and IL probably will be held IN
some Swiss city early in October.
That DIR. Stresemann, the German
foreign minister, will attend seems
definitely assured by the allied states
men, and yesterday Premier PainieVe
and Foreign Minister BRAND OF
France and Foreign Secretary Cham
berlain of England went by automo-
bile to Aix-les- -Rains, where they
apprised Premier Baldwin of Great
Britain of their decision to invite
DR.. Stresemann TO such conference,
The SuspenSion yesterday OF ScS-
sions of the assembly of the League
of Nations TO permit organization OF
that body's machinery made it pos
sible for the three allied leaders 20
make this journey.
Other Meetings Seen.
The Associated Press correspondent
learns that the first meeting with Dr.
Stresemann. which Premier Mussolini
of Italy probably will attend, is likely
to be followed by others, thus per
mitting careful reflection on any
thorny point which may arise during
the first contracts.
At present the allied leaders have
no intention of Convoking a great in
GiT n
of Washington, Genoa, The Hague
and Lausanne, where all nations
would have a chance to speak. Po-
land and CzechoSlovakia undoubtedly
will be disappointed by such a deci-
sion, Poland particularly, because she
deems that she is vitally concerned in
the character of the Rhineland pact.
because she wishes to make it possi-
BILE for France to cross the Rhine and
Germany and come TO her aid in case
she is attacked.
This question of Frances right to
traverse German soil, admittedly one
of the points which will offer the most
serious difficulties in the negotiations
with Germany. is SO important TO Po-
land that she wants an opportunity to
present her viewpoint from the very
start. 1t seems probable, however,
that the conference will be restricted
to the powers directly interested in
the Rhineland pact.
Leaders Optimistic.
Optimism, tempered by diplomatic
reserve, dominated speeches made at
an international press luncheon by
Mr.. Chamberlain, Foreign Minister
Nandervelde Of Belgium and NJ. Pain
leve.
Meanwhile developments have given
a definite direction to action in re-
gard to the Geneva peace protocol,
at least in the minds Of the allied
leaders. Their idea is that the pro-
tocoI should be left absolutely un-
touched by the present assembly, with
the idea that it should be jealousy
preserved as an ideal to work up to
gradually, first of all by the elabo-
ration of regional pacts of guarantee
like the proposed one with Germany.
Their belief is that the world should
climb UP to the protocol instead OF
making ill-advised efforts to wreck it
by revision.
1t is learned that the United States
is being kept fully informed in re-
gard to all stages of the security ne
gotiations, as the European powers
feel that America has a genuine in
terest in these and that continued
American help to Europe depends
largely upon whether Europe can ar
range her own political affairs.
German Officials Silent.
BERLIN, September 9 0P.-an
executive session of the cabinet early
next week will decide the German
governments position on the question
of the formal participation of Foreign
Minister Stresemann in a conference
with allied statesmen in regard to the
proposed security pact.
Chancellor Luther and DIR. Strese-
mann are still absent from Berlin, and
in the absence of these statesmen
official quarters declined to discuss
the reported decision Of the allied
foreign ministers to invite Germany s
representative to a conference.
DR. Friedrich Gauss, the German
representative at last weeks London
conference of experts, returned to
Berlin yesterday and made a prelimi-
nary report to Undersecretary OF
Foreign Affairs Won Schubert. DIR.
Gauss is said to have been favOrably
impressed with the result of the Lon
don meeting and to believe that an
understanding has been reached which
will constitute a basis for formal con-
versations.