Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-20
FRANCE, ITALY
AND ENGLAND
UNITE FORCES
Present Solid Front Against
Hitler's Program To Ignore
Versailles Treaty
FRANCE SENDING PROTEST
Reserves Right To Take Need
ed Steps With Allies For Her
Own Security
FRANCE SENDING PROTEST
By FREDERICK KUH

United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, March 20 W.D-Great
Britain, France and Italy acted to-
day to present solid front toward
Nazi Germany in the European
rearmament crisis.
An Italian invitation was ac-
cepted for a preliminary con-
ference at Paris Saturday and an
other to be held after Sir John
Simon, British foreign secretary.
visits Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler
Monday and Tuesday and Anthony
Eden, his right hand man, goes on
from Berlin to Moscow and War
saw.
France sent it's own note to Ger
many protesting against the new
army service law and made the de-
cision to inform the League of Ma
tions of Germany's violation of
the military clauses of the YER
sailles treaty.
The French cabinet also decided
to send Foreign Minister Pierre
Laval to Moscow as soon as pos
sible to make certain of effective
French-Russian cooperation.
Government circles reported that
Joachim Won Ribbentrop, Hitler's
special disarmament expert, was In
London seeking to negotiate secret
ly.
Eden will represent Britain at
the Paris conference Saturday, re-
turning to London before he goes
to Berlin. Fulvio Sumich, under
secretary of foreign affairs, will
represent Italy. Pierre Laval,
foreign minister, will represent
France.
Simon, when pressed in the
House Of Commons today for an
assurance that no notifications of
the Versailles treaty would be per-
mitted without parliament's prior
knowledge, announced that the
British visits to Berlin and Mos
cow will be purely explanatory"
PARIS, March 20. U.P)-France
decided today to refuse to recog-
nize Germany's right to re-arm
without the consent of the other
signatories to the Treaty of Versail-
les, and to force a showdown by
throwing the issue before the
League of Nations.
Both France S representations to
the league, tantamount to an ap-
peal, and the note to Berlin which
the cabinet drafted today, will re-
fuse to accept Germany's decision
to arm beyond the treaty limits.
the United Press learned.
The situation thus becomes even
more grave than when Britain
sent her milder note of protest to
Berlin.
The senate gave the government
vote of confidence tonight on Its
project to raise the term of mill
tary service in France from one
year to two.
France IS representations to the
league will not be made until her
note to Berlin has been delivered.
The note probably will be delivered
about IL a. m. tomorrow.
The theme of the note Is that
Germany, by Adolf Hitler s procla-
nation of conscript army not on
ly disobeys the Versailles treaty but
repudiates the later understanding
by which Germany agreed to sub
stitute for part five (the military
section) of the Versailles treaty a
military statute to be negotiated
under a general agreement for mu-
tual security in Europe.
The note says France considers
there is no reason to accept Ger
many IS unilaterial decision and re-
serves the right to take all the
steps for security which she feels
necessary, in full accord with her
allies.
France will ask the league to call
on Germany, backed by the mem
bership of the league and sigma
lures to the Versailles treaty. to re-
spect the treaties she has signed.