GERMANY BROKEN
NO OFFENSIVE POWER
Belgian Minister Looks Into the Future.
DILEMMA FOR POWERS
(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.)
LONDON, February 16.
A message from Brussels says the Belgian Foreign Minister. M. Emile Yanderrelde. speaking in the Chamber of Deputies admitted that the maintenance of the Allied Control Commission in Germany for a few months longer might be effieaeious.
Oh the other hand, the Locarno agreements gave a guarantee which the Allies had vainly been seeking since 1919. __ A* far as the iii'siW: ' coming rears were concerned Germany would be incapable of a decisive offensive on the western front. The victorious Entente had broken the offensive weapon which Germany had possessed almost intact after the armistice. but it was impossi b 1 e to achieve what Napoleon vainly attempted after Tilsit in preventing millions of forcibly disarmed people from arming- afresh.
Germany certainly intended to appeal for favourable treaty clauses at the Disarmament Conference. This would cause a dilemma in which the other Powers must reduce their forces to correspond with those of Germany, or Germany would be able to claim the right to possess forces sufficiently large to defend her territory.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1927, Page 7
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