Council Meeting

Council Meeting To decide many questions, the largest of which has to do with the security of Europe, went statesmen of the world to Geneva for the purpose of sitting in solemn confabulation in the Council of the League of Nations. Present were: British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain, French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, Czecho-Slovakian Foreign Minister Eduard Benes, as well as representatives of Italy, Japan, Uruguay, Brazil, Sweden, Spain, Belgium. One of the first developments to be made known took place when M. Briand and Mr. Chamberlain summoned the press to hear them jointly. M. Briand explained that France and Great Britain had reached a complete agreement on security and peace guarantees. Great Britain had agreed to a French note to Germany which will be made the basis of a four-power treaty between France, Belgium, Great Britain and Germany guaranteeing the sanctity of German-French border. When M. Briand finished, Mr. Chamberlain added : "I want to say formally and verbally I concur in everything said by M. Briand."