GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1926, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

Australia & N.Z. Cable Assoc.at-ion. GERMAN FEELING. BERLIN, September 19. Tho general feeling is that the fruits of Locarno are ripening at a long last. French ami Germans have now met on an equal footing, affording a wide prospect for developments. GERMAN Viewß;. BERLIN, Sept. 19. Nationalist newspapers are discussing the speech which Herr Strc.senia.nn delivered to German journalists, declaring German progress towards rehabilitation between Versailles and Geneva Conferences had caused the deepest satisfaction, adding that anyone predicting in 1919 that such a reception would have been accorded Germany in 1925 would have been considered a lunatic. Tills reception was a sign that the Versailles spirit was abandoned and also a. handsome recantation of moral stigm'a. placed on Germany. The German delegation had no intention of assaulting the League with a list of demands, but would aid at recovering gradually what Germany had lost, especially as Germany if the. victor, would not have renounced the fruits •ef victory with any better grace. He appealed to Nationalists to cease their .carping, extravagant criticism, suggesting that Germany disunite in her foreign policy. Nevertheless the “Deutsche” commends Germany’s agreement to Poland acquiring a seat oil the Council, and declares a.s long as foreign troops are on German soil and the territorial and financial clauses in Versaillcs Treaty remain in force, the Geneva gestures and words are empty. Other Nationalist journals echo these sentiments.