The Archive · 1928

Existing Pledges Secure

Sir Austen Chamberlain does not consider that fulfilment of Great Britain's obligations under the Covenant of the League of Nations and the Treaty of Locarno are precluded by acceptance of the treaty. Britain concurs with the view enunciated by the German Government's Note of April 27.

Great Britain, he proceeds, notes with peculiar satisfaction that all the parties to the Locarno treaties are now invited to become original signatories to the new treaty and that it is clearly the wish of the United States that all members of the League of Nations should become parties by signature or access sion.

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