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UNUSUAL WHITE PAPER

* Position of Prime Minister COMPLETE AGREEMENT SUGGESTED (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received March 5, 10 p.m.) LONDON, March 5. The White Paper is featured in all the morning newspapers. Besides the use of the phrase "national" instead of "his Majesty's" Government, the paper is unusual because of the concluding initials, "J.R.M." Mr Mac Donald clearly did this in his capacity of chairman of the Committee on Imperial Defence. Nevertheless, it is regarded as curious for a single Minister to sign an official statement of Government policy. The political correspondent of the "Daily Express" says that Sir Maurice Hankey's report after his Empire tour was such that it was resolved to increase the defensive forces without delay. The heads of all the fighting services joined Sir Maurice in his strong representations. Mr Mac Donald is disillusioned after his visits to Geneva, and believes that it is hopeless to get results from the Disarmament Conference. He has never believed in an endless policy of one-sided disarmament, and decided on the action personally. He drew up the White Paper in consultation with Sir John Simon, who is also a disillusioned man.

Close students detect many evi- I riencos of the authorship of Mr Mac- I Donald, who purposely chose the un- I usual course of initialling tl. docu- I ments to indicate his complete ■ agreement with the policy. The diplomatic correspondent of, the "Daily Telegraph" says that the '. plain statement about Germany's rearmament and the militaristic up- i bringing of German youth is re- ; garded as providing a poinlei for; the coming Berlin conversations. It ; is the Government's considered view ; that the Pacific declarations of Germany's leaders woul- be more re- ; assuring if accompanied by proof of a halt 'in this menacing policy. It is understood that leading members ' of the Government are insistent that \ this point shall be emphasised to ' Herr Hitler. * ■

i INCREASE IN NEXT j | FEW YEARS ! ; £(50,000,000 MENTIONED i j ; I (Received March 5. D.30 p.m.) j ! LONDON, March 5. I i The political correspondent of the ' j 'News Chronicle" says that he is : ! 'iuthoritatively informed that Lie ; (Government is planning a total in- i crease in defence expenditure of ap- '' proximately £60,000,000 during the I next four or five years. ; i SIR JOHN SIMON'S j. MISSION | DIFFERENT ATMOSPHERE OF | BERLIN LONDON, March 4. ! I The "Daily Mail," in a leading > ■ article, says: "Sir John Simon, who | goes from the London atmosphere of | pacificism and sentimentalism, must j suddenly acclimatise himself to i Berlin's stark realism. i "Herr Hitler's administration is | comprised of first-line fighters, i brough up on the B.smarck doctrine i that speeches do not settle great! I questions but iron discipline and i j preparedness to face death in a j | worthy cause. Germany's striking I | power is greater than in 1914, when, ' solely allied to the ramshackle I Austria, she came within a hair's j breadth of defeating England. J France. Serbia, and Belgium. ' "Mr Mac Donald's statement shows ! that the Government at last con- j fesses Great Britain's peril. There is j every indication that Herr Hitler do- ' sires the most friendly relations with > Great Britain, but Germany would ! respect Great Britain more if she j were strong. j "The sooner Great Britain's weak- ! ness is removed the safer will be the j : peace of Europe." j CHIEF SPEAKERS IN j DEBATE j LONDON, March 4. I Mr Stanley Baldwin and Sir John | Simon will be the chief Ministers participating in the Imperial defence debate on March 11. Sir John Simon will fly from Berlin. TEXT OF PAPER CABLED TO N.Z. GOVERNMENT fFrom Our Parliamentary Reporter I WELLINGTON, March 5. ; The White Paper on Empire defence issued by the British Govern- ' ment was received by the New Zealand Government this evening. The Minister for Finance, the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, said this evening that the contents' of the paper had ! >ren covered very fully by the cabled messages to the press from London, and that no vital points had been omitted. Cabinet had not had an opportunity to consider the \ statement, and until the Govern- ; ment as a whole had discussed the ] British proposals nothing could be ' said about them. l

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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21415, 6 March 1935, Page 11

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UNUSUAL WHITE PAPER Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21415, 6 March 1935, Page 11

UNUSUAL WHITE PAPER Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21415, 6 March 1935, Page 11

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