NOT AT ANOTHER'S EXPENSE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 59, 2 December 1937, Page 5

NOT AT ANOTHER'S EXPENSE

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Britain's Course iu European Appeasement LONDON PRESS VIEWS

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(Eeceiv d 2, 8-45 a.m.) * LONDQN, Nov. 30. In a leading ar'icle, The Times says: "That the British Empire will be called on to take an appropriate share in a settleemnt of thp eolonies problem has always been clear, but there is no ground for the eynical suggestion that British ppinion envisages a solution at someone else's expense. Other Powers with interests in mandated territories must also be brought In, The d^scussion of the colonia! question is oue of several which must be disposed of by a method of give and take if appeasement is to be reaehed.. "The Lr .don conversatiens rightly brought disarmament into the reckoning. The mistake in the past has been to attempt disarmament without coneiliation. The scope and tone of the talks are full of promise." The Daily Telegraph, in a leader, says: "The eommunique's xeassurances of Anglo-French harmony wonld alone justify the Londpn conversationg, It ig no seeret that the extent of Germany's eolonies demand mueh surpassed expectations, and somq tiru© must elapse before further apprqaehes. Meanwhile we must formulate our own proposals. Nothing has yet happened to suggest that a satisfactory settlement cannot be reaehed," The News-Chr miple, in a leader, says the eommunique suggests that England and France are determined to pursue a policy of "iron-handed eoncession," which is the only right one to adopt. They have shown goodwill. If Germany and Italy reciprocate, Europe's erisis may slowly mend. The Daily Herald, in a leading article follqwing the Anglo-French conversations, says that those who feared that Britain might arrange to deal with Herr Hitler at the expense of Franee can gigh with relief and cease to worry. The Heruld's diplomatic correspondr ent says that the English and Freneh experts will begin immediately to ex? amine Germany's colonial claims and seek a solution which can be submitted to Herr Hitler and, later, probably to some form of international colonial conference. The Daily Mail's diplomatic correspondent understands that the Prime Minister, Mr Chamberlain, visualises further talks leading to a pact between England and Franee and Germany and Italy, an essential feature of whieh would he an all-round agreement on arms, but there would be no direct approaeh to Germany un.^ the AngloFrench pxehanges reaehed a more definite stage. Meanwhile, contact will be established with Italy with a view to negotiations for a new Mediterranean understanding. It is undqrgtood that Herr Hitler sought the return of Togoland and the French Cameroons and also the creation of a new mandatory tqrritQry in the Belgian Congo and Angola, over whieh Germany would have a mandate on the condition that a chartered com? ' pany was created in which the interests of Germany, Belgium and Portugal would bp recognised, but in which Germany would hold the •majority of shares.