REPARATIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1928, Page 6

REPARATIONS

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LONDON. N"ov< in cr !“. At the Guildhall at the Lord Mavur'--baiK[iici, Mr Churchill, proposing tin toast Foreign Ambassadors.” said : "We will shortly embark on serious intricate financial discussions with Germany, with sure confidence that despite the difficulties wo will achieve a result mutually beneficial, capable of carrying the world forward on a surer and truer founded ion. Ilritain regards the liberation of German finance and soil from foreign interference and control as an object: of big! value and importance.” Mr Baldwin, sifter reviewing international changes, during the nasi l'o"i years, said: “Then we were divided in the camps of victors and vanquished. The distinction no longer exists. I hope the words will be lorgottcn. Wo have all learned the lesson of cooperation and goodwill. When the history oil' the present is written, no greater act will be credited to the United Stales than the initiation of the Kellogg Pact. 'flu* signatures thereof are meaningless unless the nations thereol determine they shall be honoured to the end ol time. I hen for the first time, will the nations he able to talk of disarmament, and the way leading thereto. ’I he choice before Europe was of the simplest. It must either keep faith with the spirit of the pact, or ultimately go down steep places like the Gadareno swine, and perish eternally.” The “ Morning Post’s ” Heflin correspondent states: Mr Baldwin's recent Guildhall speech has not thawed the German suspicions. All circles, right and left, are demanding deeds, and not words. ’Fhe headlines “ Siren Strains fram England.” and “ C omplacent Baldwin” are typical. The Borsen “ Zeitung ” concluded that the old Entente spirit persists in Mr Baldwin’s head, and says that tho reparations negotiations will test his declaration that henceforth there will he neither victors nor vanquished. It adds that the fear, nevertheless, exists that there will bo a deep cleft, between practice and theory. The 11 Allgemine Zeitung.” which always is in close touch with the German Office, says the general impression of Mr Churchill’s and Mr Baldwin s speeches is that England is still closely tethered to French policy, which is in no wise friendly to Germany.