ALLIED WAR AIMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1940, Page 5

ALLIED WAR AIMS

JOINT MEMORANDUM . .ci SUGGESTED BY FRENCH WRITER. THE DEMAND FOR POSITIVE GUARANTEES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, February 26. Declaring that there are certain differences of expression between the speeches of Al. Daladier and Air Chamberlain which may sow seeds of iiiisiiiKjerstanding, “ Pert inax.” writing in the Paris newspaper “L’Ordre,” suggests a joint memorandum defining the Allied peace aims.

“Mr Chamberlain perhaps reserves too much space for the hypothesis of a Germany devoted to peace,” “Pertinax” writes. "We hope this Germany will emerge but any treaty will risk being precarious which leaves Germany- her army, with its organisation of power. M Daladier’s demand for material and positive guarantees of peace is preferable to Mr Chamberlain’s ‘tangible evidence that will satisfy us that any pledges or assurances given will be fulfillled.’ ” The speeches delivered by Mr Chamberlain and Herr Hitler on. Saturday form the subject of editorial comment to todays newspapers in London (states a British Official Wireless message). “The Times,” reviewing Mr Chamberlain’s speech, draws attention to the peace aims, which the editorial says, though a link in the war aims—the defeat of Hitlerism —can only be fulfilled later by slow degrees. How far the defeat of Hitlerism involves the defeat of Germany depends precisely on "how far ’the whole country continues to identify itself with Hitler.” “The Times” points out that Mr Chamberlain emphasised: "We do not desire the destruction of any people.” whereas Herr von Ribbentrop and Dr Goebbels have publicly declared that Nazi Germany is fighting for the destruction of the British nation and German domination of the world. It is worth noting, "The Times’’ continues, that Mr Chamberlain concluded with the emphatic declaration that there can be no question whatever of laying down our arms 'till conditions have been secured which make the achievement of the Allied peace aims possible. . .

Turning .to Herr Hitler’s speech, “The Times” after describing it as mainly “stale repetition and "a good deal made up on taunts and jeers, some of it almost meaningless, speculates on the German people’s reactions to the assurance that all Herr Hitler has prepared “is now working smoothly;’ and whether they are convinced that he has made Germany “blockade proof.” The “Manchester Guardian” contrasts Mr Chamberlains statement as to the method of creating a stable postwar Europe, which the editorial describes as a co-operative effort in which, “if Germany has goodwill to that enterprise, she can, as Mr Chamberlain said, do more than anybody else to give this new Europe the confidence essential to its succes,” with Herr Hitler’s declaration that a new order will come without help from the democracies.

Asking what this Hitlerian new order is to be, the "Guardian” says: “We have only to look at Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland for the answer.”