GERMAN "PACIFISM"

PURPOSE NOT ACHIEVED

NATIONS EVEN MORE ALERT

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY. July 24,

Under the heading "Familiar Tactics," "The Times," in a teading article, says: "It is clear by now that the •pacific pronouncement nude in Berlin on the subject of Danzig has hardl* produced the intended effect, for in so far as it bas had any consequences at all it has only made the nations most closely concerned with the future of the Free City more than ever determined to remain keenly alert and closely united. "The views expressed in the pronouncement naturally commend themselves to no other nation at all. They stand indeed self-condemned. For in the same official statement, a quid pro quo to be granted by Germany was said to be a long-term guarantee of the Polish frontiers. If Germany 's not in the least likely to attack the Polish frontiers, why should a new German guarantee have any more value than the old. which was given for ten years and arbitrarily withdrawn after five? "It is extraordinary in the propagandists of Berlin to suppose that their neighbours, after all that has happen ed, will pay more attention to words than to deeds. In Warsaw the answer is a calm reaffirmation of the attitude which by now has become axiomatic."