GERMANY ACCEPTS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 149, 19 March 1936, Page 9

GERMANY ACCEPTS

Delegation to Go to London HITLER’S PEACE PLAN Discussion By Powers Urged (British Official Wireless.) Rugby. March .17. The meeting of the League Council this afternoon was preceded by a .meeting of the Locarno Powers tins morning, which lasted for 90 minutes, and by diplomatic exchanges between Berlin and London, which bore fruit later to-day when the German Government. advised the League SecretaryGeneral, M. Avenol, that it would send a representative to the Council. The German Foreign Minister this morning saw the British Ambassador at Berlin and informed him that the German Government expected the British Government to do its utmost in the circumstances of the case to bring about at the proper time a discussion with interested Powers on the German proposals for the establishment of European peace on a new basis. The Ambassador communicated with the British Government, which later replied to the German Government in the following terms: — “His Majesty’s Government is doing, and will continue to do, its utmost to find a means of bringing about a peaceful and satisfactory settlement of the present difficulties. It is clear to bis Majesty’s Government that the proposals of the Chancellor, as well as any proposals made by other parties concerned, must be discussed at.the proper time. The German Government will appreciate, however, that it is not possible for his. Majesty’s Government to give any more explicit undertaking at this stage.” At the end of the afternoon the League Secretariat received a reply from the German Government to the telegram sent yesterday informing it that its representative would sit on a footing of equality with other members of the Council. The reply stated that the German diplomatic envoy, Herr von Ribbentrop, would represent the German Government on the Council in examination of the question raised by the 'Belgian and French Governments, ,and that he would be available from Thursday morning onward. When the Council met in public this evening, the President, Mr. Stanley Bruce, said he had seen the German Ambassador in London and had urged him to expedite the-arrival of The German representative in time for tomorrow’s meeting, and that the Ambassador was submitting the request to Berlin. The King received in audience to-day foreign statesmen attending the diplomatic and League meetings in London, including the French Foreign Minister, M. FJandin. the Belgian Premier, M. van Zeeland, and the Polish Foreign Minister. Colonel Beck. His Majesty also received the Permanent Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, Sir Robert Vansittart.