FRANCE AND GERMANY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 14, 16 July 1931, Page 13

FRANCE AND GERMANY

PLEA EOR FRIENDSHIP

COMMENT IN BRITAIN

(British Official Wireless.) (Beeeived Iptti July, 11 a.m.) BUGBY, 15th July. . "The Times" says: "Happening at this moment, Mr. Henderson's journey becomes a matter of international understanding, a significant act of courtesy and goodwill towards two coun-' tries whose continued rivalry and antagonism would keep Europe perpetually separated in hostile camps,' but whoso friendship may more than any other single factor ensure stability. If the Foreign Secretary's journey is followed by a visit from the German Ministers to Paris, no Government will rejoice more than the British Government. If France and Germany could once for all each regard the embarrassment of the other as an opportunity for giving some help rather than for taking advantage, the gain to both of them and to others would obviously be immense." After reviewing the events of \ the last few days, "The Times" says that it is plain that political considerations are still preventing any effective aid I from being lent to Germany in her hour | of crisis, and proceeds: —

■-,■ Even now at the very end of the eleventh hour-it is surely not too late to hope that broader views and saner counsels will prevail. However passionately: French public opinion may be attached to guarantees, tho more far-sighted members of the Government must be asking themselves whether the attempt to extort' political concessions from Dr. Bruening in return for financial help, even if it were momentarily successful, would not in the long! run defeat its own ends, because the repercussions on German" public opinion would almost inevitably' render the ;position of the Chancellor untenable.