New Britain herald., 1925-03-09
FACING THE FUTURE WITH AN ALLIANCE

England and France have bccn re- ported as being near an agreement regarding an alliance; at least such rumors closely followed tlre visit of Austen Chamberlain to NJ. Herriot on Saturday, while the former was en route to Geneva to inform the League of Nations that England would not ratify the Geneva protocol for the pacific settlement of intcrna- tiona disputes. France. who helped i to sponsor and signed the protocol, l also is inclined to ditch il in favor ! Of the new security pact"
 British opinion would have to he taken into consideration before such an alliance could matorializo. On account of certain complications on the continent. British opinion is fur from being in agreement upon the advisabi1ity of an ontangne alliance although an alliance without en- tangements might be acceptable.
 Dispatches, however, indicate that the French government is far from satisfied to form an alliance with England without the cntang)cmcnts attached thereto,
 The entanglomcnts have to do with the French alliances with Po- land. CzechosIovakia and Rumania. The Frenfh have spent and loaned large sums 10 this Little Entente and have them tied to her with de- fensive treaties, It is clear from what we know of British opinion that there is no wish to become a a part of this continental system Of aI- dances But dispatches indicate that this is just what the Paris govern ment most favors. On the part of England there would be much de- bate and much hcsitancy before such thing camc to pas.
 The governments of poIand Czechosloyallia and Rumauia strong ly object to an agreement bctweel France and England regarding tho western boundaries of Germanl without applying to the cast err boundaries of that nation. Thcs' governments believe England doc not fancy including guarantees t the eastern Boundaries These gov ernments greatly prefer the Gen"y protocol. which Poland and Czecho slovakia signed, and the latter wa the first to ratify-bcing the onI state having done so. Their spok"s man at the Geneva barley openln today will be Japan, who }lkeWis insists that the protocol should nc be ditched. Il is the amendm"I concerning immigration which Ji pan secured, however, that has bee the direct cause of the protocol apparent downfall, the British oNc seas dominions refusing to consid' it, thus forcing EngIand to abondc it also.
 Obviously, Frances chief conee' h security from d future mena across the Rhinc, England also
 not unmindfuI Of the desirabiljty
 avoiding such woe(ul contingen but is inclined 10 achieve the c' of security by different means fn land is more concjltatory in spi than France and wishes 4o bm
 Germany into the agreement o' Hance as the best means Of sal guarding peace The Baldwin gl ernment, in fact has had commui cations with Berlin over the matt
 A three corncrcI agreement 0elW khese three maJor powers would
 rather a novelty in international
 lations, and scarcely anyone
 conceive Of it as q possibility |" it is realttNs
 Yet would such alliances De
 Improvement over the objccts oi
 League of Nations, which is alro;
 ,r existence and of which both b
 land and France are members
 Germany slated to become one
 tho near future? The main diff
 ence is that the League is pa(
 organization. whose main functlo
 .o maintain peace through inter
 .,opal adjudication, while aihaF are remnants of a system that ad to keep the peace, and increa Che extent of war when it ca RaIanees Of power are fundamen Iv belligerent in nature, One .,Ranee begets another, and the .imaie fruit is war-not between cations but between many .,rrr,sinr thing is that in this a.y with the experience Of gears stia unerassA Eurol .A.aa-A--a-s4---a-.----