REICHSTAG CROWDED TO HEAR MACDONALD
LABOUR LEADER’S VIEWS ON WAR CAUSE PLEASE GERMANS (Australian and X.Z. Press Association) (United Service) Reed. 11.7 a.m. BERLIN, Monday. Eight hundred people, including the Chancellor (Dr. Hermann Mueller) and Ministers, many members of the Chamber of Deputies, with the British Ambassador and other diplomats, filled the Reichstag to hear Mr. Ramsay Macdonald’s speech at the invitation of the Committee 'for International Discussion. Herr Loebe, President of the Reichstag,, introduced the Labour leader, saying Berlin still remembered how Mr. Macdonald bravely pleaded England’s neutrality at the outbreak of war, and how he recently urged the withdrawal of troops from the Rhineland. Mr. Macdonald’s speech stressed the necessity for international peace. He was warmly applauded for saying that when the truth was told, it would be found that no nation was wholly responsible for the war. Britain’s policy was one of friendship toward all democratic nations. Disarmament had progressed slowly because the nations feared they would be deceived by others. An honest nation feared victimisation by a dishonest nation.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 486, 16 October 1928, Page 9
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