GERMANY’S DESIRE

Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1933, Page 5

GERMANY’S DESIRE

PEACE & EQUALITY

SYMPATHETIC ITALIAN VIEW.

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Telegraph—Copyright;

ROME, November 13-

An inspired article in the “Giornale Di Italia,” says: Germany’s unanimous expressions of will for getting peace with honour, and equal rights, should be given due weight- jin Euuopean capitals.- We do not think Germany is preparing an offensive for a revj sion of treaties. It is now for the other powers to take a definite posi tion. ; No German withdrawal from her original position should be expected. LEAGUE AN INADEQUATE TOOL. POLISH VIEW OF SITUATION. WARSAW, November 14. The Polish Foreign Minister, M. Bock, speaking at the fifteenth anniversary of the celebration of Polish independence said that the League of Nations wag not an adequate tool for international co-operation, Poland’s balance at the League was most Unfavourable, but she would continue to use it until some better instrument had been found. The Treaty of Versailles, he said, had failed to regulate the Eastern I European question, There-ore Poland had been forced into a series of alliances with France and Roumania and her recent rapproachment with the Soviet.

“AN INFERNAL MACHINE.” LONDON, November 14. “The Times’ ” Warsaw correspondent states that the newspaper “Ivurjen” declares that the result of the German election indicates that Germany is an infernal machine, menacing the peace of Europe. NEW CONFERENCE PLAN. LONDON, November 14. The “Daily -Express” says: British diplomatists are taking soundings regarding the possibility of a new Disarmament Conference, not ot Geneva, but at some centre free of the atmosphere of the League of Nations. Germain will be consulted regarding the city, /as it is certain that she will not attend a place of which she is suspicious.”

BRITAIN’S AERIAL WEAKNESS. LONDON, November li. The “Daily Mail,’* in a leadiiig at* l tide oil disftriuninent, snj’s: “Our air weakness invites attack of tlic most tlnngmniK kind. It is of vital importance to raise the British Air Force to fiv© thousand machines, and to negotiate a defensive alliance with France. GERMANY’S LARGEST REICHSTAG. BERLIN, November 13. The Reichstag of 661 deputies, solely of Aryan descent is the largest in Germany’s history. It meets early in December at the Kroll Opera House, owing to the Reichstag not yet being renovated. AIR HENDERSON LACKS SUPPORT. (Received this day at 10.7 a.m.) GENEVA, November 14. Mr Henderson, in an interview, said be felt he was not receiving the support he wa s entitled to expect. Since Germany’s withdrawal there had been an obviou s unwillingness to take decisive steps, whereby, alone, the convention could be concluded.

He could not remain at Geneva indefinitely under conditions such as recently experienced, unless much greater determination to make progress was forthcoming. There was no alternative but to place himself in th e hands of the League council.