GERMAN CONFIDENCE IN VON SIMONS

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 62, 14 March 1921, Page 7

GERMAN CONFIDENCE IN YON SIMONS

SPEECH IN REICHSTAG

NEW PROPOSALS ON A.DIFFER-

ENT BASIS.

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• B'BH.LIN, 13th March. TITe Reichstag, by 260 votes to 40, carried a vote of confidence in Dr. yon

Simons, after his spesch dealing with the negotiations in London. ■ The German* counter-proposals, he said, he mada his personal responsibility. "From political motives," he said, "especially consideration of those towns threatened by the Allies' measures of compulsion, our position was such that we could not expect anything from a miptrae of -relations. The world's opinion of us is too unfavourable for the contention tha-t the Peace Treaty is null and void, because the Allies liave torn it tip. Germany musb fulfil the Treaty as far as possible, but not further. We have not blocked the path to further negotiations. We must endeavour to make counter-proposals on a different basis, but after this slap in the face we cannot offer our hand' and say we will etill be friends." (Received March 14, 1 p.m.) BERLIN, 13th March. During his speech in the Reichstag, Dr. yon Simons admitted that when one

heard from the gentlemen in London of • the conditions of the.ir. countries, one nmait acknowledge that their demands were not merely the result of intoxication of victory or hunger for power, but were due to extraordinary grave anxieties and needs. Dr. yon Simons's remarks produced noisy protests from the Right, countered by approving shouts from the Left.