VALUE OF LEAGUE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1927, Page 9

VALUE OF LEAGUE

IN EUROPEAN POLICY

MINISTERS IN CONTACT

STEESEMANN AT GENEVA

(United Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, 11th March.

Dr. Stresemann's outspoken speech at Geneva is the feature of to-day's news. Referring to the demand for the evacuation of the Ehineland, tie said that the world could no longer .understand how in pea.ee a country should still be occupied by a foreign force of 75,000. Germany would ask for the removal of these troops as soon as she felt she had complied with all the stipulations of the Treaty of Versailles.

His remarks regarding Eussia created something like a sensation. "I cannot understand," said Dr. Stresemanri, "how an official newspaper like the "Isvestia" could publish such rubbish as a report of an understanding between Poland and Germany in regard to the creation of a Cossack Eepublic under the protection of both countries." r

Dr. Stresemann proceeded: "We should certainly regret any complications between Britain and Eussia. The economic life of the world cannot be restored to normal while a population of 150 millions is left outside the pale. What we seek, is that Eussia should develop" upon a solid basis and so contribute to a solution of the world's economic problem. Europe thereby would be restored."

The importance of the Council meeting, he added, lay in person.il contact, superseding written Notes. "If such contact had existed between. Foreign Ministers before the war," he declared, "I am sure that great misunderstanding would have been avoided."

The "Daily Telegraph's" Geneva correspondent believes that Dr. Stresemann's reference to the Rhineland was intended to prepare the way for a demand for the evacuation at the June meeting of the Council.