WAR PREVENTION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 108, 16 February 1935, Page 5

WAR PREVENTION.

“POSITIVE ATTITUDE.’*

GERMAN REPLY TO PROPOSALS.

(United Press Association—Copyright)

LONDON, February 15

The Berlin correspondent -of the “News-Chronicle” says that a semiofficial statement declares that Germany’s reply to the Anglo-French proposals for a new armaments convention and a pact of mutual assistance against aerial aggression shows that Germany adopts a “positive attitude” to efforts to prevent an armaments race and banish all danger of war. The Government’s reply emphasises Germany’s desire for peace and pays a warm tribute to Great Britain’s endeavours'to achieve a settlement of the differences between Germany and the other signatories of the Treaty of Versailles on the question of Germany s rearmament. .

The German Minister for Foreign Affairs (Baron von Neuratli) personally explained Germany’s views to the Ambassadors of Great Britain and France and handed them an aide memoirc which* it is understood, is a brief document of only two twpewritteri pages, the’contents of which in Trench opinion are favourable to the initiation of negotiations. " .