FEARS OF FRESH AGGRESSION

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 153, 24 March 1939, Page 9

FEARS OF FRESH AGGRESSION

Efforts To Establish Common Front DIPLOMATIC MOVES IN LONDON Idea Of Conference Not Dropped By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyrigbit. (Received March 23, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, Marcli 23. Commenting on the situation today, the “Daily Telegraph” says that the manner of the Memel coup makes it more obvious that new aggressions are in store. “The Times” says that the coup has all the characteristics of the militarized diplomacy of which the Nazis have made a specialty. “The incompatibility of the Nazi methods with any reasonable code of international intercourse remains as glaring as ever,” adds the paper. The diplomatic correspondent of “The Times” says that the British and French Ministers discussed the British suggestion for a joint declaration regarding the Hungarian and Rumanian tension and the situation in Memel.

Britain was able to report that an affirmative reply had been received from the Soviet, but that nothing definite had been received from Poland, for whom the draft does not go far enough. The question, therefore, arose of strengthening the wording and making the terms of co-operation more explicit. The idea of a conference has not been dropped.

Yesterday Mr. Chamberlain, Lord Halifax, and M. Bonnet, French Foreign Minister, who is accompanying President Lebrun on his visit to London, conferred on the general European situation. The discussions will be resumed this afternoon. The Leader of the Opposition, Mr. C. R. Attlee, Mr. Arthur Greenwood, and Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Liberal leader, saw Mr. Chamberlain yesterday, and later the Prime Minister had a conversation with the French Ambassador, M. Corbin, at which the Foreign Secretary was present. CZECH BALANCES IN LONDON Embargo Bill In Commons LONDON, March 22. The House of Commons today read for the second time a Bill placing an embargo on Czech bank balances and gold securities. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon, said the Treasury would favourably consider cases in which Czechs were unable to draw their own iponey. Replying to a suggestion by Mr. G. L. M. Mander that any ultimate balance should “form a nest egg for a future free and democratic Czechoslovakia, which will surely rise again,” Mr. Euan Wallace, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, said that it was not proposed to deal with suggestions regarding the future. It was necessary in an unprecedented situation to act speedily.

SOUTH AFRICA TAKES PRECAUTIONS Statement Expected Soon CAPE TOWN, March 22. , The Prime Minister, General Hertzog, is expected to make a statement on the international situation soon. Meanwhile reservists are registering their addresses, a women’s aviation corps has been formed, and the Johannesburg and Cape Town public services are being safeguarded. BRITAIN AND DOMINIONS’ ATTITUDES LONDON, March 22. The Cabinet this morning considered replies from the Dominions and from European Governments concerning the proposed common front against aggression. “ENGLAND MUST ONE DAY YIELD” HAMBURG, March 22. Major Wiese, addressing the Colonial League, said: “Now that her territories and population in Europe have been enlarged, Germany needs colonies more than ever. England must one day yield our demands.” APPEAL TO FRENCH INDUSTRIALISTS PARIS, March 22. The Premier, M. Daladier, appealed to industrialists to re-employ those discharged In the November strike,