“For All who have Ears”

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 30, 29 October 1932, Page 16

“For All who have Ears”

“The first stage of the conference on disarmament has made no progress toward general disarmament. Not only does the resolution ignore the question of equality of rights, but it maintains the special and unworthy treatment of certain countries,” writes General von Schleicher, (ferman Minister of Defence. “In agreement with all the members of the Government I announced in my broadcast speech that a reorganisation of the defences of Germany will be necessary if the victorious Powers continue to hold back from performance of their promises of disarmament. “Attempts have been made in certain countries to weaken the effect of this announcement by the suggestion that it was made for home consumption to calm the troubled waters of internal politics. But the ether waves know no frontiers, and that announcement was meant for all who have ears to hear. “Difficulties can only be resolved :f they are firmly stated. This view has been dismissed as sensational, though many foreign statesmen, including some of those responsible for the 1919 treaties, have prophesied that not merely reorganisation of the Reichswehr but the rearmament of Germany to her neighbours’ level would follow as a natural consequence from failure to honour the general promise of disarmament.”