THE YOUNG PLAN

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 50, 22 November 1930, Page 11

THE YOUNG PLAN

No German Guarantee

PEACE TREATY Conditions Impossible ONE-SIDED DISARMAMENT By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Berlin, November 20. “We shall tear up the Young Plan, but we have never given a guarantee that Hie plan can be carried out,” declared Dr. Curtis, Gorman Chancellor, in addressing the Reich Council. “Since The Hague Conference a world-wide economic landslide has occurred, and other Governments have not carried out their promise of cooperation with Germany in fulfilling the Young Plan. The Government is responsible for seeing that the German nation is not deprived of its social and moral foundations by intolerable burdens.” ' Referring to disarmament and a recent speech by M. Tardieu, Dr. Curtius said: “If to-day, twelve years after the peace, the demand made for the one-sided disarmament of Germany shall remain, it will have consequences which cannot be foreseen. It would seriously endanger the existence of the peace of nations and all other guarantees of peace.” Germany, he said, had rejected a policy,of adventure in foreign affairs, but Germans did not consider it possible docilely to acquiesce in the present position of affairs under the Peace Treaty, especially in the East. It was not unchangeable treaties, but the lives of nations which determined the future. Germany needed peace and the cooperation of France.