HITLER A HOTHEAD

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 665, 18 October 1933, Page 5

HITLER A HOTHEAD

(British Qfficial Wireless.)

GERMANY'S WITHDRAWAL YIEWED AS POLITICAL GESTURE GREATING AN IMPRESSION

Rugby, Oetober 16. The news of Saturday's developments wtas received with complebe cairn in London, where the announcement of Germany's wiithdrawal from hoth the Disarmament Conference and | the League of Nations is attributed to I ■a' desire to.create the maximum impression in Germany. Herr Hitler's explanation .of his action is generally regarded as entifely unconvincing, particularly in visw •of the fact that the. proposed convention, so far from inflicting humiliation on Germany, would be desiigned to confer upon her the equality which •she demands at the end of eight years. The Times says: "It is the plain duty of the other Governments to show Herr Hitler that the ways of a j swas-h-buckler and hothead will bring i hina no success iiy diplomacy. "The German Chancellor has chosen | the very moment when negotiations | seemed nearer to an agreed conclus- j ion than ever before to malce his an- | nouncement. j "The new situation is not to be j met by the countries whom Germany has defied, acting either hurriedly or •singly. The best way to recreate hopes of removing one potent cause of the world unrest is to put into final shape an agreement which is open to Germany, and reduce it for public consumption to the simplest terms." The Daily Herald urges that the best way to retrieve the disaster of the week-end is for the conference to conbinue and produce a convention giving' genuine and substatial disarmamet. Peace Not Endangercd The Daily Telegraph states: "This is not the time for an alarmist agitation. No grounds exist for any fear that peace is endangered by the latest and most sensational proof of the spirit by which German policy is being guided under Nazi d'ictatorship. All that has been done to mitigate the sequences of defeat and humiliation for Germany has counted for nothing."