PORTENTS OF WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 35, 11 February 1936, Page 10

PORTENTS OF WAR

FAR WORSE THAN 1914

SAME CAUSES PREVAIL

STRONG NATIONS' AMBITIONS

A SIGNIFICANT MESSAGE

United Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received February 11, 1.45 p.m.) LONDON, February 10. "Never have I found such widespread foreboding of war as during the Continental journey from which I have just returned," writes Mr. Ward Price in the "Daily Mail.' "Things are far worse than they were in 1914." There was the general phrase that the present warlike preparations cannot continue without an explosion, ho said.

Mr. Price ridicules General Smuts's opinion that the war talk is mostly bluff, and contends that behind the present situation are the same causes as formerly, namely, strong nations with unsatisfied grievances and ambitions, of which Germany, the most formidable, aims at taking over the Polish Corridor and satisfying Poland for that by conquests from Russia. He points out that the Franco-British talks with M. Tukachevski, who has been visiting British munition factories, and conferring with the War and Air Ministers, inspire misgivings in Germany, where they are taken as evidence of attempts at an encirclement, although they are merely part of a vague Geneva plan for collective security. Nevertheless, however much they contribute to Russian security, they will be fatal to British security if they provoke Germany to strike west instead of east.

"1 had an hour's talk with Signor Mussolini recently," he writes. "It left an impression of the danger Britain runs in creating community interests between Germany, Japan, and Italy, all of which are intent on acquiring colonies.

"So far there is no evidence of a German-Italian "bund," but inside cases of German merchandise which is being imported in greatly increased quantities to Italy owing to sanctions, is often found a printed message, always in the same words: 'Hold on until the spring.' ".