GERMANY’S STAND

Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1929, Page 6

GERMANY’S STAND

NO SURRENDER OF THE RHINE. United Press Asset nation —By Electric Telegraph— Copyright). / BERLIN, June 25. Speaking in the Reichstag, Count Westarp, the Nationalist leader, (renounced the Government’s foreign policy. He contended that the Young plan of Reparations payments exceeded Germany’s capacity, and was not acceptable without the unconditional evacuation of the Rhine and the Sarr. jj'r dLresomann (Foreign Minister), in replying, declared that the plan of a settlement for ion years signified the easing of Germany’s chains. There was no question of the Government agreeing to a Conciliation Committee as to the Rhineland as the price of tho evacuation of the Rhineland. The Government was prepared to abandon all the negotiations if any attempt were made to create, a permanent Rhineland Committee.

Dr Stresemann incidentally poured scorn on Herr Hugenbero’s idea that the worst economic crisis would be better for Germany than the Young Plan. Dr Stresemann said that a failure of the Young Reparations Plan would annihilate what remained of tlie German middle class from the inflation days, and he could envisage nothing more disastrous for the country.

President Von Hindcnburg and the Government, he said, had supported .he National Mourning Day demonstrations on the tenth anniversary of he signing -of the Versailles Treaty. Nobody in Germany had ever acknowledged. that Germany was solely responsible for the war