ADVERSE IMPRESSION?

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 52, 24 November 1937, Page 5

ADVERSE IMPRESSION?

Lord Halifax's Visit To Germany BRITISH MISTRUST (Beeeived 24, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 23, The Times Berliu correspondent says that Yiscount Halifax's few remarlcs are taken to mean that he was not favourably impressed hy what he had seen and heard in Germany. Should his report have the effect of dissipating some of the mistrust of German intentions which it is thought prevails in London, then influential circles in Berlin belieVe that the main obstacle to a BritishGerman understanding, upon which the peace of Europe depends, will be com. siderably lessened. "This continuing British mistrust," the correspondent adds, "is thought to be Tefleeted in the British preference for general settlements on the basis of collective" pacts as against agreement between individual States on the lines favoured by Germany. It is contended that there is no pxoblem separating, Britain and Germany that cannot be solved by bilateral negotiations. " On the other hand, the poliey of collective seeurity aiming at the maintenance of the balance of power on the basis of the Versailles Treaty is not even in accordance with the realities of Germany's position and power on tbe Continent now that she is rearmed and allied with other powerful States."