Evening star., 1927-12-04
ParIeys Between French,
Russians, Italians and
British Are Rumored.
CONCLUSION OF SEVERAL
SECURITY PACTS URGED
BRAND to Meet Litvinoff, but
Britain May Decline to Back
New Treaty.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, December 3.-Possible
private meetings between represent
atives of France and Italy and Russia
and Great Britain to discuss differ.
ences between their respective coun.
tries was one of the burning topics
Of discussion tonight after adjourn.
ment of the preparatory disarmament
conference.
Speculation as to whether Premier
Mussolini would follow up an opening
given by foreign Minister BRAND to
talk over personally means of eradi-
eating friction between the two coun
tries came to the fore with the ad
journment. Delegates also kept their
eyes open to learn il Maxim Litvinoff
head of the Russian delegation. would
take advantage of the opportunity to
talk with M. BRAND over differences
with France and also with Sir Austen
Chamberlain, British foreign secre.
tary, with view to re-esta blishing
diplomatic relations.
Other Problems Pending.
There were other more definite prob
lens to worry statesmen also. The
free city of DanZig whose German
population always has inspired For
eign Minister Stresemann to rally their
support, seems determined to get
Poland out of Danzig. Poland, there.
fore, is arrayed against two hostile
states in measures coming before the
League of Nations Council next week
-Danzig and Lithuania. Lithuania
has protested that Poland has been
conspiring to overthrow the incum-
bent Waldemaras government of
Lithuania.
Poland was given the right by the
council to utilize the port of the free
city of Danzig as warship base and
also to use small peninsula at the
edge Of the city for landii.g war mu-
nitions. Therefore. say Polish srokes.
men. 1t is unnecessary for Premier
Pilsudski of Poland, Is has heen re-
ported from Berlin, TO promulgate a
secret order to regard DanZig as Il
military base for Poland. since Poland
has no intention of exceeding rights
already granted.
Ff Want Activities Transferred.
To this the Danzigites report that
their city has been made effectuaI!y a
military center and that Poland sh ,uld
transfer all of it's military and raval
activities to the Polish port Of Gdynia.
now nearing completion a short dis
tance down the coast.
Enrique Villegas, Chilean member
of the council, is special reporter of
the Polish-Danzig problems. which
have been pending for years, and
hopes to make recommends tions
which will be satisfactory to the tree
cjtV Poland and f.ermany
Russian problems and proposals
have paramount place in the discus
sions that follow the adjournment.
Litvinoff encountered an overwhelm-
ing defeat today when he made a de-
mand that the next session of the
preparatory disarmament commission
be convoked January 10. before the
security committee meets again, so
that preliminaries for the forthcom-
ing international disarmament con-
ference could be pursued uninterrupt-
edly. However. he accepted phllo
sophically the commissions verdict
that it was impossible to hold another
session of the preparatory commission
before March Is. the date eventually
selected.
General Pact Urged.
Conclusion of a general pact OF Sc
,urity for continental Europe. lnclud-
ing Russia, was proposed by Joseph
Paul Boncour of France tonight as
solution of the problem of putting
Europe on permanent peace basis
and as a foundation for disarmament
NJ Paul-Boncour discussed the ques.
ton tonight with Anatole Lunach
arsky of the Russian delegation.
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