| Show S FOUR POWERS ERS PREPARE TO RATIFY PEACE rAe PAC Great Jubilation in Rome Marks Signing OfTen Of Ten Ten- Year Treaty 4 S J I M Mussolini De Denies ies Ag Agreement J Tends to Shut Shut ShutOut Out 1 I Ot Other r Nations l By ANDRUE nE HERDING DING S T Associated Press Staff Stall Writer W I HOME iOME June 8 The 8 The governments of Great Britain France Italy and Germ Germany ny prepared today to present to th their lr parliaments for ratification an agreement ment for a decade of peace pence and disarmament Signed in ln Premier Benito Mussolini's Musso Musso- lini's linis is i's office last night the pact pledges the four tour great western European powers pow pow- ers to collaborate within the framework framework frame work of the league of of nations to examine articles in the league cove cove- pertaining nant-pertaining to aggression to work lor tor the the succesS of the Geneva diSarm disarmament ment conference and to cooperate in in economic e reconstruction Legislative approval l for the document docu docu- S ment is expected to be a matter of mere form in Italy whose premier proposed it O on March 18 and it is felt here that German Gernan and English ratification also will be forthcoming quickly It was hoped that French accept acceptance ance anee m e would b be attend attended d by no great delay deay The signing of the accord was re re- I. I in Italy with gr great at jubilation parades illumination of public build buildings ings speeches peeches by JI ii if duce duce- and count count- demonstrations by cheering crowds PRESS RE S PRAISES TREATY b Newspapers called the accord the greatest test event since since the World war 4 4 and nd were emphatic In their praise especially for France They predicted the settlement o of all aU major Italo- Italo French differences 3 Before Before- the Italian senate Signor Signer Mussolini declared the success of ol the world thc world disarmament conference nce in Geneva Is indicated adding however howey-er that t if des despite everything it ends otherwise we have the pact to fall fallback fallback back upon The purpose of the agreement he described bed thus l' l The fruitful results of the agreement agreement agree agree- ment should rapidly be forthcoming 5 but do not think that there will be beno no rio more differences or that differences differences differ differ- will be magically composed The object of ot the pact is is' is isto to create the possibility of solving questions that arise from time to time ForI For I this purpose it must be complemented by normal diplomatic contacts There j must mus be periodical and rind more or less f- f 1 frequent conferences according to toI I necessities among men directly reI yeL re- re I L' L for the foreign policies of L the four states t As As for the league of nations it will 11 be revitalized not rendered use use- user usef r f Jess by this methodical collaboration r among permanent members of its council Later Later before ber large rea a large crowd in front of his office in the he Palazzo Venezia he declared I consider this a r satisfactory satis factory day for Ital Italy which has been reawakened by action EMPHATIC IN DENIAL Mussolini emphatically denied reports reports re re- re ports that the thc agreement agreement- tended to create a closed phalanx among the contracting p powers and insisted that their common common desire and spirit is to cooperate with all other states large and nd small smaIl This collaboration Uon tiOn is desired particularly partie with the United States without whose valuable and practical assIstance assistance assist assIst- ance no stable and constructive work in world political pacific or economic restoration is possible he said He Hc eulogized the German revolution tion declaring it to be a movement of the people and not a n coup The nazi government of Chancellor Hitler he said is definitely in m line among nations working for peace There here will never be any intention among the contracting parties to use force for the revision of treaties he said The present pact extends the collaboration col cal collaboration provided for in the 1925 Locarno agreement nent and embraces economic eco ceo cooperation It is a restatement restate restate- ment and ment-and and reinvigoration reinvigoration-Of of the Kellogg Kellogg Kel Kel- logg pact the league o of nations covenant covenant cove cove- nant and last Decembers December's agreement pledging Germany arms equality Its chief values are are arc that It induces collaboration at a 3 a time when Europe fears tears war and that it pledges disarmament ment merit regardless of the arms arms conference confer confer- ence decisions I |
