LORD HALDANE'S VIEWS ON GERMANY.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XCIV, Issue 5165, 19 February 1924, Page 1

LORD HALDANE'S VIEWS ON GERMANY.

A BERLIN REPORT.

"Vorwarts" publishes an interview which was recently given by Lord Haldane to its London correspondent. The London correspondent had been describing the deep moral depression from which Germany is suffering and the growth of political extremes in which it is manifested.

"The Germans," Lord Haldane said, "are a great people, a tenacious, an industrious, and indestructible people I may claim to know them well. In England I am generally considered pro-German—and rightly so. My feelings towards Germany have never altered, and I have never concealed them. That is why I am still confident in her future. The Germans are certainly passing through a difficult period, but we in England will not cease to put our whole weight into the task of mediation between France and Germany."

. Lord Haldane went on to say that he was confident that every German had sufficient sense to realize that a return of the Monarchy would not benefit his country, and that there cculd be no permanent dismemberment of the Reich. He was convinced that there would be no new war within the next 20 years, and he hoped for a much longer period.

At this point the correspondent of "Vorwarts" referred to the Haldane mission of 1912.—"Lord Haldane answered me," he says, "in a tone of unspeakable bitterness, but with the utmost decisiveness": —"If they had listened to me then in Berlin, if they had shown more understanding of my proposals, there would have been no world war."—"London Times."