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Show SECURITY PACT DF PIOCHEJ SIGNED NEW ERA FACES EUROPE WHEN SIGNATURES ARE PLACED ON LACARNO PACT Germany Is First To Attach Name To Articles; Tense Feeling Of Versailes Is Absent At London Lon-don Meet London. Germany and her principal princi-pal antagonists in the world war, on December first signed the Locarno treaty and collateral pacta guaranteeing guaran-teeing peace in Europe and the submission sub-mission to arbitration ot any disputes that may arise between them regarding regard-ing their frontiers. The contrast between be-tween the signing of this momentous pact and the peace treaty of Versailles Versail-les six years ago was marked in two respects. There were none of the magnificence magnifi-cence and glamor surrounding the Versailles signing. The ceremony, which lasted only an hour, was notable nota-ble for its extreme simplicity. And this time the Germans came of their own free will. They signed gladly, with smiling faces, in striking contrast to that other occasion when the delegates of the reich appended their signatures under compulsion with white faces registering a mixture mix-ture of fear and auger. The ceremony was carried out in a spirit of optimism which was hailed hail-ed as auguring well for an era of peace throughout Europe. To the click of motion picture cameras cam-eras and a blaze of Kleig lights, Chancellor Chan-cellor Luther of Germany, Priemer Iiriand of France and Foreign Secretary Secre-tary Chamberlain of Great Britian entered en-tered the famous golden reception room of the foreign office arm in arm, conversing and smiling. After them came the delegates of Italy, Belgium, Poland and Czechoslovakia, Czecho-slovakia, followed by Premier Baldwin Bald-win and all his cabinet. The latter ranged themselves along the back of the room to witness the crowning success of the efforts of their government govern-ment and especially of Foreign Secretary Secre-tary Chamberlain, whom the delegates dele-gates addressed as Sir Austen, because be-cause of the honor done him by King George, who awarded him the Order of the Garter for his services at Locarno. Lo-carno. Immediately the delegates had taken tak-en their places at the large table, in the order in which they sat at Locarno, Locar-no, the British foreign secretary, without rising, began an address of welcome in French to the plenipotentiaries, plenipoten-tiaries, speaking in the name of the king. His words fell in an impressive silence. In the very brief speech he told the foreign statesmen of the gratification gratifi-cation felt over their presence at the ceremony and expressed the king's disappointment that his mother's death had made rearrangements of the program necessary. Chancellor Luther, who followed, expressed his country's pleasure at the conclusion of the pact. After him came the remaining delegates, voicing similar sentiments and speaking according ac-cording to tradition in the alphabetical alphabeti-cal order in which the countries fall and in the French language. A few moments were taken up by the foreign office's legal adviser, Sir Cecil Hurst, in formalities and the signing began at 11:25. New Charges In Brookhart Case Filed Washington. The new charge that the Iowa senatorial election of last year was fraudulent because Senator Brookhart was not a Republican, was made by the state Republican com- mittee to the senate committee hearing hear-ing the contest over the seat now held by Mr. Brookhart. |
