Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 8, 1928, Winnipeg, Manitoba Naval pact described As either Clumsy est or most pernicious action Manitoba free press Winnipeg monday october 8, 1928 i. Copyright in the United states great Britain and Canada. All rights reserved. Reproduction prohibited. Copyright by United feature Syndicate by Lloyd George London oct. Anglo French pact is either the Clumsy est or the most pernicious diplomatic act of modern times. We know too Little about it even now after weeks of Dis Cussion to place it in the appropriate category. The final verdict will prob ably be that it was both mischievous and fatuous. The British government As indeed All the Peoples or the British common wealth have reason to be intensely grateful to the government and press of the United states for revealing to the British Public and the world some of the facts of the commitments into which the government of this country had entered with that of France. The whole transaction is amazing in the Fatu Ity of its secretiveness and in that respect it is probably without parallel or precedent in recent diplomatic his tory. It is customary when a govern ment has submitted a proposal to an other and the latter has forwarded its reply that both documents should be simultaneously published in both Capi tals by agreement if the first Docu ment has not already seen the what appears to have happened in the present circumstances is that the american embassy in delivering Kel Logg s note on the Anglo French naval proposals expressed the thought that the British foreign office would undertake the publication of both Docu ments probably in the form of a White paper. This however did not happen the foreign office declared either its inability or its unwillingness to pub Lish its original note to Washington at this moment so that the american embassy had no Choice but to publish its own note. It is permissible to ask what purpose the foreign office May Piave. In permitting to withhold the note All the facts which so they assert Are contained in the american reply a note moreover which is in the hands of the italian Ond japanese governments As Well As the american. Governments not Imor Mert but this is not All. British opinion had been led to believe from British official or Semi official of a i formation. That the United states. Italian and japanese governments Hart been placed in Possession of All there was to know about the Anglo Frencis naval agreement. This however is now shown not to have been the Case. Since is stated explicitly in the american note that Washington has actually received no text of the Anglo French agreement but merely a summarized version supplemented so there is reason to believe by additional de tails afforded it in reply to two successive enquiries for elucidation in London and ill Paris. This again is an extraordinary situation probably also without precedent. Three governments Are invited by two others to express their opinion on an agreement concluded by the two latter of which the actual Tex is withheld from them could secretiveness and secretiveness calculated to Avo so International suspicion in in unmeasured degree be pushed further and More clumsily than this the foreign office in this matter could not have violated More flagrantly or More Stupl cily the sound axiom of open covenants openly arrived it. There May be some excuse for discretion whilst negotiations Are in Progress. There can be neither excuse justification at this Date for pre serving secrecy on an agreement that has already been reached. The bluish government As a member of the league of nations cannot maintain this attitude any longer without a breach of Faith towards institution. True Many of the Continental military Powers which in recent years have concluded Alie nees with each other whilst registering with the league the general articles of their so called pacts of peace a sad Misnomer have carefully refrained from Register ing military conventions arrived at be tween their general staffs claiming that such documents would be value less if published. That however is Noj reason Why great Britain should done this disloyalty to the Basic Prins Caples of the league and still Lessof should it copy it. For it has been new matted in official circles in London that Fri there do exist Large technical annexes s relating to the Anglo French naval agreement in principle but it has added that such technical annexes too intricate to be understood by the Public. This leads to the important question of whether we know All even now about the full and real effect of this astounding fact. Have the British tie persistent objection of. 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France claims therefore that s these British concessions must stand of whatever the Fate of the naval agree Fri ment. To this Contention of France it the British foreign office More or s less assents. Yet what it Meens is a terrible Check to the Progress of Universal disarmament by land. It is a fillup Given to conscription As against the voluntary system of Mili tary service throughout the world for it enables countries like France both to maintain a huge standing army and to give hundreds of thousands of men every year a full military training and yet entitles them to claim that their War strength should be computed at a. No higher figure i than that of a country with a Small standing army of Only like j Germany or like great Bri j Tain with very trained reserves. A reference to the to the figures of the military strength of France Italy Poland and Czecho Slovakia will give some idea of the startling effect of this British Concession on the prob Lem of disarmament. The figures of the regular armies of these four countries Are a follows j France including the colonial army Italy including colonial army Poland Czecho Slovakia 150.000. These figures Are Given in the Ordinary reference books and Are pre j sum ably official but they represent Only a fraction of the men that could be put into the Field fully trained and equipped for War in the event of mobilization. The figures of these enormous reserves and carefully sup pressed by All the countries who have Jujj them at their disposal. In All discus Sions on disarmament their existence v is ignored. The situation As to reserves is As k follows in All four countries military service is compulsory and All Able bodied men of military age Between joing Are liable to be called up in the ing Are table to be called up in the event of War. And May be regarded As constituting reserves. The exact official figures of these effective re serves Are not do bulked by any of Theo governments concerned and the lol f lowing figures Are therefore estimates from the Best available information. 0 the figures axe France Italy. Poland Czecho Slovakia that Means that France and her 1 allies can at a few Days notice put into Field Over trained men under arms. No wonder Italy is in easy about this pact and that Ger Many is sceptical about the French claim that the occupation of the Rhine Lance is essential to French Security. If it be True that the Anglo French pact includes an undertaking on the part of Britain that in All discuss on on san lament the Gigantic reserves Are not to be taken into account then the cause of peace has been deliberately betrayed by govern ments of Britain and France. 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