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...Like The Monroe Doctrine." No Government will be asked, either now or soon, to sign up as a member of The European Union. But with French precision, M. Briand asked the Governments to comment on his embryo plan before July 15, 1930. He proposed that it be thoroughly examined and debated in Geneva next fall, as a sort of extracurricular activity of the delegates who will thus have gathered at that session of the League of Nations...
...forestall the obvious comment that he is assembling a group of states against the U. S. M. Briand formally notified the U. S. State" Department, last week, that such is not his intention, whatever his actions may lead to. Blandly Brier Briand maintained last week that "The European Union" will constitute one of those "regional understandings like the Monroe Doctrine" of which U. S. citizens so heartily approve...
Plan Facts. "The nations of Europe today must unite in order to live and prosper." declares M. Briand's plan. This is his axiom, his slogan. He proposes "a moral union of Europe" based on "a Pact of General Order, however elementary...
Prospects. In Berlin Vofwarts, organ of the largest German party (Social Democratic), declared "the Government could do nothing more stupid than to reject Herr Briand's proposal." Minister of Interior Dr. Josef Wirth, formerly Chancellor, promised that the Cabinet would examine the scheme "with an open mind...
...Paris the French Government tacitly admitted that action on the plan will be blocked by Italy for some time. "In violent contrast to M. Briand's peaceful proposal," said the semiofficial Journal des Debats "the most warlike harangue ever heard in time of peace during this century has just been uttered" by Mussolini...