WOULD AGREE.
REARMED GERMANY.
Belgian Premier's Statement
Causes Sensation,
TREATY FRAMERS' ILLUSION. ;United P.A.—Elcctric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 2 p.m.) BRUSSELS, March G. Comte de Brocqueville, Prime Minister, caused a sensation in the Senate by announcing that Belgium was prepared to accept the rearmament of Germany, which was no longer a vanquished country but had recovered her strength and importance. The only ways to oppose lior rearmament were to compel respect of the military clauses of the Peace Treaty, or wage a preventive war, which was worse than the evil it sought to cure. He refused to launch Belgium on such an adventure. The present situation was due to the >great illusion of the framers of the Versailles Treaty in believing that it would be possible indefinitely to keep a great nation disarmed. Belgium, in co-operation with France, Britain and Italy, would, to the utmost of its endeavour, arrange amicably with Germany to avoid an armaments race.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 7
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