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INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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at London, Paris, Berlin and Mos
COW: from the Russian capital Cap
tain Anthony Eden, under-secretary OF
foreign affairs of Great Britain, pro-
ceeded to Warsaw where he tried to
persuade the Polish government to
join the proposed eastern mutual Sc
curity treaty movement. He did not
succeed, for Poland, an ally of France.
at the same time the signatOry OF
non-aggression treaty with Germany.
is situated between Russia and Ger
many and thus might become, 1t was
feared, a principal battle ground in
case of a new war, hence deemed 1t
wise to stay away from any further
complications.
At Prague Captain Eden secured
Czecho-Slovakian promise of willing
ness to cooperate with Great Britain
and other powers in an effort to main
tain peace, but it was so general In
form as to make it a bit vague.
Eden then went back to London to
submit his report, but was ordered to
bed by his physician who found that
he was suffering from heart ailment
which makes it imperative for him
to rest for several weeks.
Discussions.
So, Mr.. Eden will not be at StreSa,
but his chief, Sir John Simon, will
be there, and a possibility Is men
toned that Prime Minister ]. Ramsay
Macdonald may come, too. Italy will
be represented by Prime Minister
Benito Mussolini and Vice Foreign
Minister Fulvio Suvich, and from
Paris will come Foreign Minister
Pierre Laval; it may be that Prime
Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin will
find it necessary to go to Stresa, also,
but nothing definite has been an
nounced about his plans at the mo-
ment of writing.
Succinctly stated, the object OF the
Stresa meeting. called largely at the
insistence of France, is to neutralize
the effect of Germany's rearmament.
How to do that, is the prOblem-no
less a problem when one considers the
interesting and disquieting fact that
neither Germany nor Russia has been
invited to the conference.
One way out of the predlcament is
the often proposed eastern European
mutual security treaty; it is not likely
to be chosen for several reasons; one
is that Great Britain is not so very
enthusiastic about it as it might lead
her into new commitments on the
commitments which it will
be difficult to Justify to British pub
lie opinion. Another is that Poland
is almost certain to refuse her sig
nature to such an accord, and third
that Germany has made it definitely
known that she will not sign-that is.
as long as the other powers fail to
recognize her as an equal.
Other Plans.
Then, too, there are possibilities OF
new Triple Entente between France,
Great Britain and Italy-the very
same lineup as during the World war;
it may be said that Great Britain
most probably will find serious faults
with this, too: The London govern
ment likes to have hand in arrang-
ing the fate of Europe, but does not
want to put itself under obligations
that might throw Great Britain into
new bloody conflicts.
France, meditating on the POSSIBLE
ity that Great Britain will remain
aloOf to both the eastern European
treaty and to a Triple Entente ar
rangement, has, it is understood, al
ready taken steps in the direction of
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is to go to Moscow on April "a; will
visit Warsaw on his way back to
Paris Naturally, it will be his spe-
cial business to cement FrancO-Rus-
sian friendship and. if Great Britain
fails France. to try to convert it into
a regular alliance.
Well may the world look with fear
at such a pact, for it has not yet
forgotten that it was, primarily, the
Franco-Russian alliance of the nine
ties of last century that precipitated
the World war.
Perhaps this French alternative
will not be workable-it may expect
British opposition. but there is. after
ALL the possibility that the plan will
prove feasible.
Anyhow. it will be discussed. in
formally at least, at Stresa-and the
statesmen there assembled may also,
all other suggestions failing, take up
the idea of Socalled Pan-European
treaty. comprising all nations of the
Old World.
German Attitude.
In that case, Germany will be asked
to join-and Germany will refuse;
Adolf Hitler's attitude is inflexible:
He will not take part in anything
International until Germany is con-
ceded to be the equal of the other
great powers. There is, then. the
possibility that a treaty will be set
up-without Germany. There is the
further possibility that such a treaty,
i'm that case. will contain germs OF
serious conflicts.
Germany has made it clear that she
is willing to sign almost any proposed
intra- European agreement If the other
powers will live up to the disarma-
ment pledge which they themselves