Evening star., 1933-12-16
FRENCH EXPECTED
To DECLARE ARMS
DEADLOCK TONIGHT
Impasse With Germany Likely
to Be Proclaimed
by Cabinet.
MUSSOLINPS LEAGUE
REVISION ALSO OPPOSED
Iebrun to Put Approval on Franco
Little Entente Pact-Poland
in Line.
BY the Associated Press.

PARIS, December 16.-A Franco
German deadlock on arms and a firm
stand against Premier Mussolini's at
tempt to revamp the League of Nations
probably will be proclaimed by the
French cabinet tonight.
The session was arranged after con-
terences between DR.. Eduard Benes,
Czechoslovakian foreign secretary, with
Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour
and other leaders here.
Cognizance also was taken in plan
ming the meeting of a communication
received from Warsaw today which
made it clear that France and her allies
are united in policy.
Meanwhile, President Albert Lebrun
planned to put his final seal of ap-
proval upon a Franco-little entente
united front against Chancellor Adolf
Hitler's arms demands. Premier Benito
Mussolini's proposals for League of Ma
tions reforms and efforts to separate
disarmament talks from the Leagues
scope of activity.
The stand Of France and four of her
allies was decided upon yesterday in
conversations between French Foreign
Minister Paul-Boncour and the Czech
oslovakian foreign secretary, Dr. Eduard
Benes.
Today luncheon at the presidential
palace Elysee, was arranged at which
the President intended to lend his
formal support in the presence of Pre-
mier Camille Chautemps, M. Paul
Boncour and DR.. Benes.
Joining in the united front were, in
addition to Czechoslovakia. the two
other Little Entente nations-Yugo-
slavia and Rumania-and Poland.
Envoy to Poland.
All agreed that it would be impos-
sible to consider Germany's rearma-
ment demands in direct diplomatic ex-
changes at Berlin. holding that gen.
eral disarmament program should be
formulated at Geneva and presented to
Hitler.
In line with the French policy of at
tempting further to consolidate the
common position of the allies, it was
announced Paul-Boncour would go to
Warsaw shortly to strengthen Franco
Polish ties.
DR.. Benes and the French foreign
minister planned to meet again during
the day to complete defining of their
common position and finish study of
Central European economic problems.
The Czechoslovakian diplomat told
Paul-Boncour last night the Little En-
tente governments saw in the Italian
plan to reform the League "a method
aiming at revision of the territorial
clauses of the Versailles treaty by the
great powers among themselves, to
which the Little Entente is resolutely
hostile"
Germany's recent withdrawal from
the League and from the World Dis
armament Conference .ponsored by the
League, DR.. Benes said, was but an
other maneuver to withdraw the dis
armament problem from Geneva and
seek revision of the Versailles treaty
outside the League"
Separate League and Treaty.
Unless destruction of the League was
sought, he contended, any modification
would be possible "only on the basic
principle of the Ieague equality of all
= nations.
Problems raised by the Italian
scheme and the German claims" he
said, "can be solved within the League
in accordance with its statutes"
The Italian plan was described In
Rome as aimed generally at broaden
ing the scope of the League to make
possible the cooperation OF non-mem-
ber nations, such as the United States.
However, it was said unoficially. one
of II Duce's proposals was to separate
the League from the Versailles treaty.
Paul-Boncour may 60 to Moscow after
his visit to Warsaw, it was indicated
today. 1t was understood he had re.
ceived an invitation from the SOVIET
government, but had not decided
whether tn ACCEPT