EUROPEAN TANGLE

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 89, 15 April 1935, Page 9

EUROPEAN TANGLE

TIIEEE POWEES UNITED

GERMANY'S NEW OFFER

"A DEFINITE ADVANCE"

(Brltisb Official Wiroless.) (Received April 15, 12.45 p.m.)

RUGBY, April 13,

It is anticipated that the ThreePower Conference at Stresa will end today, and that it will be found fo have materially reduced European tension, which has been so marked during the last few weeks. The announcement, which Sir John Simon, British Foreign Minister, was fable to make to the Conference as the result of further communications with Berlin to the effect that Germany is now willing to enter an Eastern Pact of non-aggression, is regarded by the British Press as marking a definite advance

A suggestion on these lines was put forward by British Ministers during their recent visit to Berlin, but was not then regarded favourably by Herr Hitler. ' The suggestion, presumably, has been examined in greater'detail in the interval, with the result that Germany feels herself able to make this contribution.

One result to which the newspapers point is that the German announcement makes the recent negotiation of a Franco-Russian' Pact of mutual assistance compatible with an Eastern Pact in which Germany can participato on the1 basis of non-aggression and non-support t« aggressor. A satisfactory step forward, also has been made in regard to next week's proceedings at Geneva. Three Powers have agreed, without prejudice, to the attitude of other Powers on the Council to support a resolution, which, while recording the fact of Germany's unilateral repudiation of the Versailles Treaty, would establish a committee to study measures which can be taken in the event of future treaty . infractions.