GERMANY AND VERSAILLES

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 72, 26 March 1935, Page 7

GERMANY AND VERSAILLES

\-'Bugby f Marcfr .25, - With the JPoreign. Secretary in- Bariiri the Prime Minister »fi»w«r««t several questioa* on'fcis behalf in the House of Coupon* today* Asked, whether the TJena&n Government*a aatloa In "denouncing* the -Versailles Treaty was intended \t&;ftff*<ti «*y-#K»- ' visions other .than tae jailitary el*a»eay Hr.K&clttmaid. pointed out that the Treaty of Versailles did not provide fox denUnoia,U»tt by the signatories ihexvof and it was « misapprehension*to supfcOue tliat any action ta&en unilaterally by toe g«rk»n o.overra&eat op by 'say other Gorsmneot could have the effect -of d€>uou»oi»g a treaty in'the usually accepted «e«&e of the tens* The :VJswa of 'tji« British Government in regard to the Germaj* decision 'Of maro.il Xs%h had-already been mads ' clear. No other clauses of the %( Treaty, were so. t fcr a.« fee was a^aire'affected by t&is G'e'rmafef aotlo»; " A&ked what Treaties affecting Britain had within •the last 50-' years been denounced by unilateral actlott, the mine minister said that-tH* Russian <Jo?erttmeat * in 188<S denounced the Article of the treaty of Berlin by which Batum. was constituted a free'port* Ke knew of no other' denunciation by unlla-te*fcl ss ac?tioj} v -where no cuch right was, conferred in a treaiyV *"\ "' - There* had iweir «»»«*■ vhttvt* treaties had bee* violated witUou* formal -deuuh.oiatioo-. -- In addition thare had beefl & number of treaties which; had been denounced ,by\anilateral aotioa, eucji action, however, being . < % in Rocordartoe with the right conferred in v tJs« taf«*ti«««