SITUATION DELICATE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 670, 24 October 1933, Page 5

SITUATION DELICATE

(British Oilieial Wireless.)

exchanging views EXPLANATION MAY LEAD TO CONSTRUCTIVE POLICY NO NEED FOR RUSH

Rugby, Oct. 22. The disarmament situation still occupies the forefront of interest, public attention being increasingly devoted to the lines upon which future policy should run. The situation is delicate, and exchanges of views with j other Governments are obviously part of the procedure. Referring to next week's meetings of the bureau and the General Commission, The Times says: "It is too much to hope that they will be able to achieve any positive result, but it is not too much to hope that their proceedings may lead to a fresh effort to explore a constructive opportunity. The conference, as onee before, must inevitably be thrown back upon the method of consultation and' co-operation between the principal Governments. I "There is no need to rush matters I or to take hasty decisions in what will I clearly be a slow and difficult process at hest. Nor is there a danger j that the present interruption of the | work of the conference will lead to | any immediate catastrophe. Germany's Isolation "For the moment, Germany has ehosen to retire into isolation and proclaims it in an election which, whatever the domestic purpose it may serve, can hardly hope to impress opinion abroad. But there is no reason why Germany's isolation should impose inaction on the other parties concerned to promote a common and indeed a universal interest." The Manchester Guardian has no sympathy with advocates of national isolation in any country. It holds that the choice lies between the Leaguo of Nations and individual force, and it says: "Whether a disarmament agreement resting on supervision can be obtained or whetber, failiiig- a convention, we are left with the greatest dangers, our only hope still is to organise through the League on a common front, not to oppose Germany or any single Power, but to preserve common peace from comm,on calamity. "This can still be done. The loss of Japan does not impede us, and the loss of Germany, were she determined to wasli her hands of the international system, would make it more liecessary." Conference Should' Continue Lord Cecil, expressing his view in r. broadcast speech, said he thought the conference should continue its effcrt to get a disarmament convention accepted which would be fair to all parties, including Germany. Headded: "We must acknowledge the principle that equality ought to be given, 'and any convention must provide for such serious steps towards carrying that principle into effect as will show Germany and the world that the rules governing her armaments are the same in principle as those governing the armaments of any other divilised Power. If this process takes longer than we had hoped, it is partly because the character of German policy is still very obscure. "Peaceful speeches by the Chancellor, Herr Hitler, are balanced by warlike propaganda carried on with the approval of some of his chief subordinates. "A Government which threatens Austria and tries to break down the Disarmament Conference must necessarily cause anxiety among the other countries in Europe."