CLEARING THE GROUND.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 5 April 1926, Page 9

CLEARING THE GROUND.

Echo Of Geneva Deadlock.

GERMANY DEMANDS CLEAR UNDERSTANDING.

By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received April 4, 5.5 p.m.) PARfS, April 2. Germany is attempting to clear the ground for the reorganisation of the League Council, and her admission in September. Tho German Ambassador in France (ITerr von Hoesch), called on M. Briand and questioned him in tho name of the German Government: Firstly, on what is likely to be the attitude of France towards the candidature of Spain and Brazil. Secondly, how the Commission to study tho proposal for the extension of the Council, will be composed; Thirdly, what will be tho exact status of tho German delegates invited to participate therein. It is understood that similar queries will be addressed to other permanent members of the Council. GERMANY’S FIRM IDEA. PERMANENT SEATS FOR GREAT POWERS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z, Cable Association. (Received April 4, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, April 3.. Speaking at Annaberg, Dr. Stresemann said the Cabinet’s opportunist Pacifism, was truer to Prince Bismarck’s real politics than tho dithyrambics and sabre-rattlings of tho modern Nationalists. There was no disguising the fact that the Genevan crisis had not yet been overcome. Whether Gormany would find her way back to Geneva, depended on whether the Locarno advocates succeeded in clearing a path, such as Germany was prepared to tread. Well-informed people understand that Dr. Stresemann is inquiring into the scope of the proposed inquiry into the Council’s Constitution. He has also indicated that Germany is of opinion that permanent seats should he reserved for tho Great Powers, aud that the personnel of the non-perman-ent members of the Council should be constantly changed, with due consideration to tho claims of non-Europeans.