GERMAN REACTIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 271, 15 November 1937, Page 7

GERMAN REACTIONS.

Welcome to Visiting British Statesman. NO LESSENING OF DEMANDS. (Revived lU noon.) LONDON*, November 14. Germany could not have received better the announcement that the Lord Privy Seal, Viscount Halifax (formerly Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India and President of the Board of Education), is to visit Heir Hitler on behalf of the British Government, remarks the Berlin correspondent of "The Times."

Germany, it seems, has high respect for his qualities as "a statesman not too deeply engrossed in petty politics." The newspapers frequently have praised his clear-sighted and unprejudiced approach to international jtolitics and repeatedly have named him as "one with whom Germany could talk."

English Press forecasts, however, are denied by the Nazi official news agency, I which says there will be no weakening of the Rome-Berlin axis or of the antiCommunist pact, while Germany has nothing to add to her colonial demands, made through the Fuehrer.

The principal British Press forecast Ss denied. It suggested that Herr Hitler was prepared not to press his colonial demands for ten years in return for a free hand in Central Europe.

The Nazi official news agency adds that if the visit is to take place in such an atmosphere the question will arise as to whether it would not be better postponed.

Lord Halifax conferred to-day with the Foreign Secretary. Mr. Anthony Kden. He will leave for Berlin on Wednesday.