Evening star., 1933-03-22
French Optimistic as Musso-
lini Proposals Are Ac-
cepted in Principle.
PARIS WANTS AGREEMENT
IN LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Argues That Four.Power Limita.
tions Would Tend to Divide
Europe Into Two Groups.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, March 22-Premier Daladier
OF France, it was believed today, may go
to Italy to meet Premier Mussolini Of
that nation as the next step in efforts
to organize four-power peace club.
It was thought the two may meet in
Northern Italy, as II Duce is still un-
willing to leave Italy.
No plans, it was said semi officially,
had yet been made for the meeting
which was still only a possibility de-
pendent on Signor Mussolinis reaction
to conversations in Paris between Prime
Minister Ramsay Macdonald Of Great
Britain and French officials.
French Are Optimistic.
French government circles were In
creasingly optimistic over the posi-
bility of an eventual accord.
I'VE see ray of sunshine" said a
government spokesman.
Frances efforts to widen the scope
of the accord is allaying fears Of Po-
land and the Little Entente. 1t was
said. It remained to be seen, however,
on what basis they would participate.
particularly in the revision Of existing
problems. because of Premier Musso-
iini's desire that the peace club be a
strong, independent group unh1ndereo
bv unWieldliness Of the League OF
Nations.
The French are anxious to bring about
q pact within the League, because tney
would be able to muster votes and IN
fluence there to counteract possible
Italo-G German block against them.
The principal French CRITICISMS OF
the Mussolini plan appear to be that
If the Peace Club is confined to the
four powers, Great Britain, France, Ger
many and Italy, it will tend to divide
Europe into two categories of nations
and will infringe on the prerogatives OF
the League of Nations, in which all
members have the same rights.
Return to London.
Premier Macdonald and his foreign
secretary, Sir John Simon, said the four
powers are the center of the scheme be-
cause they are the League Councns per
manent members and would bear the
brunt "if worst comes to worst.
MdCOOQdlQ ana oil JOIlkl 4CAe Ny oA1
plane for London at o'a.m.
The French leaders also contend that
admissions of the right to revise peace
treaties and Of German armament
equality, as called for under the Mus
solini program, require most careful ex-
animation. This Is necessary, they held,
in view of the possible consequences IN
diplomatic negotiations which would
he initiated immediately.
The nature of treaty revision must
be defined and Frances allies-Poland,
Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugo-
slavia-must be treated as equals. the
French insist. poland and Czecho-
slovakia gained their independence and
the boundaries of the other two coun-
tries, as we'll as France, were greatly
extended under the postwar peace
treaties which Italy and the defeated
central powers have long sought to re-
vise.)
Sent to Muss0lini.
The modifice liens in the Mussolini
plan desired by France were forwarded
to the Italian premier after yesterdays
conversations between the British
statesmen and Premier Daladier and
Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour.
The British representatives came here
directly from Rome to explain the plan.
Macdonald said British policy was to
seek more neighborly feeling in Eu-
rope and that no special views were de-
ing pushed by one side or the other.