NAZI DIPLOMACY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1939, Page 6

NAZI DIPLOMACY

USE OF TORTUOUS TACTICS PROPOSALS HELD BACK. ONLY DISCLOSED AFTER EXPIRY DATE. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, September 1. The following authoritative statement has been issued in London: — “The proposals published tonight by the German Government are not a reply to any British view that the questions at issue between Germany and Poland should be settled by means of negotiation aand not by force. The efforts of the British Government have been directed to seeing whether a discussion between the German and the Polish Governments could be arranged, it being understood that the discussions would be on terms of equality, that the settlement should be one safeguarding the essential interests of Poland, and that its due observance should be secured. “With regard to the proposals now made public, it is learned in official quarters that they were only communicated to the Polish Government for the first time this (Thursday) evening. The proposals were read over to the British Ambassador in Berlin late on the night of August 30, but were not communicated officially to him on the ground that it was too late to communicate with them officially as a Polish representative had not arrived at Berlin by midnight on August 30, that being the time stipulated in the latest German communication, dated August 29.” ' MEATLESS DAYS PROCLAIMED IN ITALY. (Received This Day, 8.5 a.m.) ROME, September 1. The Government has banned the sale of meat on Thursdays and Fridays throughout Italy. .