FRENCH SUPPORT: GERMAN CRITICISM

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 339, 21 January 1937, Page 5

FRENCH SUPPORT: GERMAN CRITICISM

PRESS COMMENT ON MR. EDEN’S SPEECH. . LACKS UNDERSTANDING OF GERMANY AND APPRECIATION OF HITLER’S PEACE EFFORTS. GERMAN EVOLUTION—RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. (Press Association—Copyright.) Received 11.10 a.m. PARIS, January 20. Official circles are pleased at Mr. Eden’s speech in the House of Commons. _M. Blum’s newspaper, Populaire, declares that it constitutes events of the highest importance. British foreign policy has reached a turning point, the essential factor of which is closer co-operation with democratic France. The rest of the press contends that if Signor Mussolini and General Goering counted on British support for their policies in the Mediterranean and in Spain, they must be disappointed. i A Berlin cable states that inspired press comment there declares that Mr. Eden’s speech was made to the wrong address. It charges him with lack of understanding of Germany, and with a lack of appreciation of Herr Hitler’s services to European peace. It challenges his right to put Italian and German evolutionary interest in Spain on the same footing as the Soviet’s revolutionary aims.

MR. NASH AGREES.

Policy Of Collective Security Only One Possible. Press Association—Copyright. Received 2 p.m. London, Jan. 20. . Mr. Nash, on his way to Geneva, commended Mr. Eden’s reference to Germany. He and Mr. Jordan would continue to emphasise that New Zealand’s policy of collective security was the only possible security. It could be effective only by the nations accepting the responsibility of co-op-erating to , full to enforce agreements on which the lives of nations were based. He was well satisfied with the progress and reception within and beyond governmental circles of New Zealand’s proposal for a planned expansion of trade and improvement of living conditions.

SPANISH GOLD.

Has Fourth Largest Holding In the World. Press Association —Copyright. Received 11 a.m . Madrid, Jan. 20. The Government has issued a communique denying that it transferred the nation’s gold abroad. It adds that Spain continues to have the fourth largest gold holding in the world, despite six months of war.

ITALO-GERMAN VIEW

Nations Hold Same System ' And Same Ideals. Press Association—Copyright. London, Jan. 20. “Germany and Italy are firmly resolved to oppose the establishment of Bolshevism in( Spain,'* declared General Goering, German Air Minister, in a statement to the Italian Press Upon his arrival at Capri today for a few days’ “Germany and Italy hold the same ideals and opinions and the same system of authority and order.” Generip! Goering nedied that Italy had attempted to influence Germany to abandon the present policy towards. Spain, djeclpring that the two countries were still pursuing the same policy. The present harmony between Berlin and Rome, he adoed, would be further strengthened by continuous contracts and the joint examination of all problems. Italian acceptance of th e British proposals for the control pf volunteers in Spain «s regarded as certain, says the correspondent of the Times at Rome, hut it is believed that both Italy and Germany insist that control ©hall be exercised only by the four great Western Powers, excluding Russia.

SPANISH AIR RAIDS.

Rebels Bomb Madrid; Loyalists Bomb Ceuta. Press Association—Copyright. Received 11 a.m. Madrid, Jan. 20. Insurgents bombed Madrid during the night. Five bombers participated in the raid, which concentrated on the working-class district, where at least 100 people were injured. It is also reported that Government ’planes bombed Ceuta.