The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-09-02
WANTS TO SEE POLES GUARDED
 BY NEW TREATY
France Fears Germany and Russia Will Try to Sub-
 jugate New Nation

PARIS, September 2.-Just exact ly what does France want from Germany in the way of political guarantees?
 During the exciting business of saving Germany financially there was much talk of France insisting upon political guarantees.
 Premier Pierre Laval and Chan cellor Heinrich Bruening admitted they skirted the subject a dozen times in the conversation they held in Paris, in London and en route. It is also to be presumed that, when they gained each others confi- dence, they went to the bottom of the matter.
 But it was, for home politics, much too early for either of them to admit such an exploration.
 The main guarantees France wants from Germany look simple though; it wants Germany to give the same guarantees for the inviol- ability for it's other principal from tiers that it gave, at Locarno, for the French and Belgian frontiers.
 French See War Clouds
 The Locarno pact, to French eyes, has even a certain liability attached so long as Germany does not give equal guarantees for it's Polish and Austrian frontiers.
 The French can see possible wars arising from breaches of these frontiers.
 There was treaty of arbitration signed between Germany and Pol land at Locarno but the inviolabll- ity of the frontiers was not agreed to by Germany In Germany, it is also common knowledge, the pres ent German Polish frontiers, mo- tably the Polish corridor, have never been accepted as inevitable as has the loss of Alsace and Ior- raine.
 Nudt eAhoS o
 combined Germany and Russia
 may some day crush Poland
 like a nut, and France, under
 the present circumstances,
 could do little about it.
 The Rhine inviolability agree ment would even prevent France from going to Poland's rescue and with Poland crushed, France would find it had an eastern neighbor which, effectively, reached out to the Pacific.
 Promise Arms Cuts
 Just as no German can accept the loss of the marches to the east" no F,renchman can think Of Poland without concern.
 If, however, Germany were to sign an eastern Locarno' the French believe the political unrest would vanish.
 In the disarmament memoran- dunn just issued by the French government it is said that France dared to reduce her land forces only because of the Locarno guar antees of Rhine inviolability.
 An eastern Locarno, it can be inferred, would make possible an- other big cut in land forces in all Europe.
 
 Guaranteeing the Austrian from tier would be another pacifier, the French consider, as it would make impossible the "anschluss," or pollt- ical union, with Austria and pre- vent a common frontier between Germany and Hungary and between Germany and Italy.
 Brucning Cites Covenant
 Such are the principal guarantees which, in the final analysis, France wants from Germany. Bruening was reported to nave said to Laval that he could nov go into the question of political guarantees because Article 19 of the Covenant of the League of Na- tions provide that the league take up "the consideration of interna- tional questions whose continuance might endanger the peace of the world" | The French answer is: "Strese- mann did not hesitate at Locarno. To which the German comeoack lis: We were not members of the league at the time"