London, Mar, 22, Without a single exception, all leading Sunday papers condemn the Locarno memorandum inmost trenchant language, not one serlously reckoning with its acceptance by Germany. The creation of a demillfaused zone of 20 kilometres wide, if such were conceivably possible, {is visualized as a new catastrophe for alt Europe.
The "Sunday Times" reiterates that the agreement of the four Locarno Powers constitutes a mere preliminary result; the first and foremost idea must be to arrive at an understanding with Germany. Only when this Is achieved, will it be possible to discuss the' chief problem, namely a permanent and comprehonsive pact to make Europe secure against war. A coming world peace conference will. solve this question, but the doors which the Locarno Powers have opened to Germany must not be banged in their faces. Bven if Germany refuses the memorandum as it stands, there is still room for discussion and negotiation.
Mr. J. L. Garvin, in the "Observer," heads the editorial "Resuscitated Versailles" and declares that proposals of the Locarno Powers are fas bad as they can be. "Just imagine a mixed foreign force—British and Tallan—patrolling German territory. It would be utterly impossible for Hitlers protest agnnst the Franco: Soviet pact to got a fair judgment should it be brought before the Hague Court. Not even the "Ver—sailies Treaty shows a more hopeless misunderstanding of the German temperament or the moral basis of the peace of the world,
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