The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-10
BY RALPH HETNZEN

BY RALPH HEINZEN
 (Copyrlght, 193e, by United PreSs)
 Paris, March 10 = UP) = France and Great Britain disagreed today on action to be taken in answer to Germany's rearmament of the RhineIand. Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin announced after a meeting of Locarno treaty sigma tories that no decision would be made on joint action until the League of Nations Council meets at Geneva. The League Council VIII meet informally at Geneva tomor- row. to consider the 1talian-Ethi- opian problem and discuss the Ger man crisis. It will meet formally Friday to take action on Rhinelano armament. Flandin tried vainly, It was indicated today, to obtain Brit tsh agreement to four point program against Germany which would en- taiI a virtual ultimatum to Adoli Hitler to withdraw his Rhineland troops and, if he refused, with drawal of diplomatic representa- tives from Berlin. This action would be but preliminary to other penal ties.
 Locarno Powers Meet
 French. British, Italian and Bel 0ian delegates as representatives ol the Locarno powers met in the great salon of the foreign office adjoining FIandin,s office, Once during the meeting Sir George Clerk, Brltlsn ambassador, left the meeting to tel- ephone to London for fresh instruc- tons because of the sternness ol the French attitude. He returned 10 the conference room with them.
 At the end of the morning meet ing Flandin said in a communlque'
 "In the opening session M. Flan- din welcomed the delegates, who arc signatories and guarantors ot the Locarno treaty. He specified the meetings purpose as one to ex- change information and study the situation, but no resolutions were to be proposed nor decisions taken before the council meeting at Geneva.
 with procedure thus defined, the different delegations explained their viewpoints. This exchange of views will perhaps be continued in Paris this evening but in any case will be continued at Geneva where tho delegates will meet tomorrow.
 The delegates adjourned to at tend a state luncheon at which they continued discussion informally.
 French Penalty Plan
 Tn the morning session Flandin, voicing the anger and alarm of France, presented as his program tho following:
 IA virtual ultimatum to Adolf Hitler, in the name of the Locarno powers, insisting on the withdrawal of his troops.
 2--Agreement by the LIocarno pow CTS to enter into no negotiations of any kind with Germany so long as tho troops remained.
 3--If the troops are withdrawn, the powers could proceed under Article VIII of the Locarno treaty which provides that the league council can denounce the treaty with the consent of all powers. This could lead the way to new Locar- no, in which the Rhileand status could be changed.
 4-If Hitler refuses to withdraw the troops, the Locarno powers would ask, as unit, that the league council impose penalties on Ger many, the first to be the with drawal of ambassadors and other diplomatic representatives as a gesture of disapproval of Germany's action.
 Delegates Present
 Flandin convened the meeting in the great salon of the foreign of- flee adjoining his office.
 Chief delegates were France, Flandin and Joseph Paul-Boncour, minister of state; Great Britain, Anthony Eden, foreign secretary, and Viscount Halifax, lord privy seal; Belgium, Premier Foreign Minister Paul Van Zealand; Italy, Ambassador Vittorio Cerruti.
 Flandin sought united request that the league council devise econ omic and financial penalties to back up action of the Locarno powers in seeking to force Germany to live up to the Locarno treaty that was to guarantee existing French-B Belgian German frontiers.
 French opinion, already united In anger at Germany's action, was further inflamed as the meeting opened by reports that Germany was secretly building powerful for tifications in the Rhineland to back up it's 45,000 troops.
 To Address Deputies
 Premier Albert Sarraut prepared to address the chamber of deputies on the crisis this afternoon. A con- ference of representative of all po- litical parties, from extreme right to extreme left, assured him of a unanimous vote of confidence if he asked on on his announced policy:
 No negotiation with Germany so long as German guns menace French cities"
 Flandin selected as the medium Of his demand for league penalties against Germany a special resolu- tion which the league council ap- proved April r, 1885. This resolu- ton was drafted by France, Great Britain and Italy at Stresa, Italy. after Adolf Hitler's renunciation of the military clauses of Versailles The resolution said that Germany had failed in the duty which lay on all members of the international community to respect treaties. and made provision for defining econ- omic and financial measures which might be applied should another such emergency arise as that caused Dy the German violation of the military clauses.
 The French idea was to obtain the approval of the Locarno sigma tories for invocation of this reso- lution, and for them to propose to a meeting Of the leaOlle council