APPEAL TO GERMANY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 165, 26 April 1935, Page 5

APPEAL TO GERMANY

TO PROVE PACIFIC INTENTIONS.

TERRORS IN PATH OF PEACE.

EUROPEAN CONFIDENCE DESTROYED.

(United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.35'a.m.) LONDON, April 25.

"Germany has acted in such a way as to destroy the feeling of mutual confidence in Europe," declares Mr JV Ramsay MacDonald, in an article in the National Labour Party's official organ, "Newsletter." "Germany has not broken the iroad to peace, but has beset it with terrors. Germany claims a measure of armed power which puts most of the nations of Europe atl its mercy. Germany says ; You must trust me. I assure you I have no designs upon you.' She asks tathfer nations to accept a verbal pledge of pacific intention which she herself would not accept from her neighbours. Other nations will refuse to be pacified by such an assurance, for which they can show ample justification. Germany has raised suspicion in practically every nation in Europe and I do not believe any German can honestly feel surprised that his Government has been prejudicially dealt with when 'the League of Nations Council expressed apprehensiveness and disapprobation." Mr MacDonald ends with this appeal: ".Will the German Government prove its pacific intentions by declaring immediately that if is prepared to take part in carrying into effect the resolutions carried at the conference of Powers at Stresa.