A WORLD QUESTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 12, 14 July 1939, Page 9

A WORLD QUESTION

NOT MERELY GERMAN

"CAN BE SETTLED BY CO-OPERATION"

LONDON, July 13,

"The Times" devotes a further leading article to the Prime Minister's statement on Danzig in the House of Commons on Monday and the reaction to it in the rest of the world. It says:

"The great merit of Mr. Chamberlain's statement is that, for all its firmness, it was scrupulously fair and placed the problem in its historic perspective. In Warsaw the speech was welcomed for. being sensible as well as for, being strong. The Italian Press is editorially silent. Even in Germany the statement has not—in the first, instance at any rate—produced quite the outburst of vituperation which has come to ■be the almost automatic response to British statesmen's declarations of policy since Herr Hitler's Reichstag speech on March 28.

"Constant reiteration of extreme national views has led to a state of affairs in Nazi Germany in which the individual has almost renounced his intellectual maturity. Yet it is noticeable that German Press comment on Mr. Chamberlain's speech, though it generally asserts that the situation has been'made worse by it, has so far on the whole been reasoned and varied."

"The Times" emphasises that Danzig is not purely a German question but an international one, and could be settled easily by co-operation.