Will Armed Forces Aid France If Germany Alters'
Demilitarized Zone Under Versailles Treaty?
London, May 7.
QUESTION was asked in the House of Commons to-day whether, in the event of any alteration by Germany in the zone demilitarized under the Treaty of Versailles, it was to be! understood that Great Britain would immediately go to the assist~ ance of France with the whole of her armed forces under the Treaty of Locarno.
The Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, replied that the circumstances in which the British guarantee under the Treaty of Locarno would operate were specified in that Treaty itself.
As stated in the Anglo-Italian declaration embodied in the results of the Stresa Conference, the British Government: stood by all their obligations under the Treaty of Locarno and intended, should the need arise, faithfully to fulfil them.—Wireless through, Reuter, London, May 7.
The British Government fervently hopes that Herr Adolf Hitler's pro. mised statement on foreign affairs uch constructive action on the part next week will be the prelude to
fof Germany as would transla into action his frequently proclaimed desire for peace.
"This declaration was made in the House of Lords to-day by the Earl of Stanhope, Under-Secretary of For-feign Affairs, in reply to several 1 Speakers who had shown sympathy for. Germany and approval of the declaration on foreign policy made by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, on May 2 (when he announ. ced the expansion of Great Britain's air force.)
Lord Stanhope recalled the elect tion made last week by Sir John Simon, the Foreign Secretary, that Germuny should re-establish a feeling of scourly in Burope by acts and not words.
Replying to a suggestion that the Government should re-constitute the Disarmament Conference, the Under~ Secretary for Foreign Affairs said it seemed. impossible at present for Great Britain to submit figures for Tand forces in Europe ikely to be
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