The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-04
BRITISH FRENCH
 EUROPEAN PACT
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and French leaders ended last night.
 The agreement regarding mu- tual aerial defense was the real issue.
 Based On Two Treaties
 It was based, according to an- nouncements. on two treaties al- ready in existence:
 1-The Locarno Treaty of 1925 in which Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain and Italy guaranteed peace.
 2-The Geneva Treaty of 1892 in which Britain, France and Italy promised Germany equality lin a system providing security for every one."
 The British French commmun- ique expressed willingness to give Germany the right-which 1t al- ready has exercised-to rearm if 1t joined the League of Nations and a general armaments treaty.
 It invited Germany, Italy and Belgium to enter into an aerial mutual assistance treaty.
 It reaffirmed the 1882 "equality" treaty. It proclaimed Britain's readiness to join ln the French Italian agreement, reached at Rome January 2, to safeguard the independence of Austria. Britain formally identified itself with the French Italian agreement not to admit the right of any of the ma tions vanquished in the World War to violate the military clauses of the treaties they signed. They agreed to try to reach "a general settlement, freely negotiated, Of the issues between Germany and other powers" Britain expressed it's pleasure that France and Italy Both nations urged, in the inter- est of European peace, the con clusion of an eastern European mutual assistance treaty and a central European agreement.
 Italy Not In It
 Finally, us regards the aerial part, the British French commun- ique said:
 "The French and British min isters, impressed by the special dangers of peace created by mod ern developments in the air, mis- use of which might lead to sudden aerial aggression by one country against another, and have given consideration to the possibility of providing against these dangers by q reciprocal regional agreement between certain powers"
 A British statesman hastened to explain that Britain undertook no new obligations.
 He indicaed that, so far as Brit ain is concerned, 1t would enter hn aerial defense treaty only with Germany, France and Belgium. Italy was omitted on the ground that 1t was not considered a west ern nation.
 The chief French negotiators left for Paris today--Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin by air plane and Foreign Minister Pierre Laval by train.
 Germany May Accept
 Berlin, Feb. 4-(UP)-Adolf Hitler has informed the British ambassador that Germany is will- ing to enter into diplomatic dis cussions based on the British French agreement for consolidat- ing European peace, it was said on reliable authority today.
 It was understood that the ann bassa dor, Sir Eric Phipps, indica- fed a British delegation, possibly headed by Sir John Simon, foreign or Anthony Eden, dis expert, might soon visit Berlin to start conversations.
 Hitler was understood to have told Phipps that Germany might accept, in principle, the British French proposal for mutual aer- ial defense.
 The proposals were welcome here, it was said, because they recognition of Germany's air fleet.
 Germany is denied . military air force under the Versailles Treaty but the British French recognizes Uermany's right to an air force by envisaging it's inclusion in the proposal for treaty under which Germany, Brit. ain, France and Belgium would pledge themselves to aid each other with airplanes in event one. of the four nations was attacked by another of the four.