2 NOVEMBER 1934, Page 18

LOCARNO OBLIGATIONS

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] " News of the Week " in last week's issue of The Spectator it is stated that public opinion will reject decisively the idea of building air armaments for a possible war with France.

Has not The Spectator overlooked our obligations to Germany under the Treaty of Locarno ?—Yours faithfully, J. H. FLEXMAN Claverton, Copse Wood Way, Northwood, Middlesex. [The Locarno Treaty does not impose on its signatories any quantitative obligation. What we pledge under it are our forces such as they are. Neither France nor Germany would be entitled to demand that we increase them in order to strengthen our position as guarantors.—En. The Spectator.]