GERMANY'S TERMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 41, 17 August 1939, Page 9

GERMANY'S TERMS

PEACE CONFERENCE

SAID TO BE IN PREPARATION

BASED ON LANSING NOTE

(Received August 17, 1 p.m.)

LONDON, August 16

The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says that German legal experts are drawing up Germany's case in support of Herr Hitler's terms for joining in a European peace conference which will be announced either on August 27 or at Nuremberg. It insists on the surrender of Danzig, to which the Poles will be granted free harbour facilities. The German case is based on the Lansing Note of. November 5, 1918, in which the Allied Powers expressed willingness to make terms on the basis of President Wilson's fourteen points. Other Italian and German claims, notably that of the Polish Cor.idor, will come up for review at the proposed conference.

In a North American Newspaper Alliance article, Sir Arthur Willert, discussing the possibility of a Totalitarian move to give Herr Hitler his window-dressing while saving Poland from the fate of Czecho-Slovakia, mentions a suggestion, of which he says more will be heard, for an East European version of the Locarno Treaty, under which Poland will be assured of assistance by the great Powers if any signatory attacks her. Poland, says the writer, feels strong enough to allow the Statute of Danzig to be so altered as to enable Herr Hitler to proclaim that it safeguarded Germans from Polish domination. The chief difficulty here, as in 1925, is the inclusion of Russia.

Referring to the German assumption that Britain's lack of hardness of will is exemplified by the surrender of the four Chinese at Tientsin, Sir Arthur Willert says that London is nerving itself for a violent crisis and that word has gone to the appropriate authorities to be prepared for anything.