OPTIMISM ELSEWHERE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1939, Page 7

OPTIMISM ELSEWHERE

Not Shared in Warsaw GERMAN STATEMENT CONDEMNED (Received This Dav, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON. -July 21. From Berlin, Tokio and Rome comes news of a relaxation of tension, but optimism is not shared at Warsaw, where the German statement is described as a combination of wishful thinking - and persistent propaganda. A Berlin correspondent of “The Times’’ declares that the statement may be the opening of another round of “the battle of nerves.’’ The British attitude to the suggestion that London may exert influence to make Poland amenable will be studied attentively. The Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain points out that the German spokesman clearly expected that Britain, by pressure on Poland would settle the Danzig problem peacefully, and declared that rather than plunge Europe into war some Power—Britain was meant —should brutally call the Polish Chauvinists to order. “No British or French statesman,’’ he said, “has denied that Danzig is German. Britain is a realist country and knows that as long as Danzig is not part of the German Reich, it will be a source of constant friction.” The spokesman asked if it wore not reasonable to rejoin Danzig to Germany and compensate Poland with favourable neighbourly relations.