PRESS COMMENT VARIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 135, 24 June 1937, Page 5

PRESS COMMENT VARIES

(Received 24, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 23. The Berlin Press bitterly blames Britain as alone being responsible for the crisis, and adds that Germany has won the right to take independent acttion. Thankfulness for British friendship, coiubined with alarm at the German intransigence, is the keynote of the Frcnch newspaper comment. "Pertinax," writing in the Echo de Paris, declares that Germany and Italy use the bogey of Oommunism to explain their flagrant breaches of the agreement for non-intervention in Spain to' install themselves across the British and French lines of communication in the Mediterranean. ''Franee cannot tolerate further menaces and mobilisation," he says. The other newspapers consider it significant that Germany reappears at the climax of the civil war as the principal supposter of General Franco. ' The Vtielkischer Beobachter contains a veiled threat of Germany's withdrawal from the non-intervention committee. It states that the German sailors are too good to be used as laboraorv rabbits, because English liplomats Jack the conrage to faee Bolshevism. Since Mr Anthonv Eden lails here, he must admit the failure of his non-in-tervention policy.'' the. paper adds