SIMILAR TO AMERICA'S

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 106, 7 May 1928, Page 9

SIMILAR TO AMERICA'S

SPEECHES AT HEIDELBERG lUTHEK BEYOND MARK United Tress Association—ll;" Electric Telegraph—Copyright. "Times" Cables. (Received 7th May, 1 p.m.) LONDON, Oth May. The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" says that the University of Heidelberg's conferment of honorary degrees on Dr. Stresemann and Mr. Shtirman, flic American Ambassador, was marked by speeches demonstrating Americo-Gcrman solidarity in favour of the Kcllogg proposals. Air. Shtirman declared that war must he renounced, if culture were to exist. He was most impressed by tho similarity of American and German international ideals and he hoped1 that all nations would join in a glorious march in the cause of civilisation. The speeches do not encourage the supporters of a Franco-American entente, or convert those who regard (the anti-war pact as idealistic. Dr. Stresemann's view that Bismarck was really a pacifist who behaved with excessive moderation in imposing the Treaty of IS7O has irritated Frenchmen. Sliurman ha.s gone too far in his effort to be polite to his hosts. His reference to the "glorious march" provokes ironic citations of the Lusitania and the invasion of Belgium.