LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 20591, 17 September 1930, Page 9

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

CHIEF GERMAN DELEGATE SPEAKS PEACE DECLARATION Pm* Amociatioa—By Telegraph—Copyright. GENEVA, September 16. (Received September 17, at noon.) Crowded Assembly galleries awaited Dr Curtius’s speech. It was recognised that the German elections had placed him in a very difficult position, but he mad© no reference to the elections beyond giving assurances that Germany’s policy to the League would be unchanged. He claimed that Germany was probably the worst sufferer in Europe’s economic crisis. The reparations payments had much aggravated her position. He cordially associated himself with Mr Henderson’s disarmament plea. He expressed disappointment at the development of the international situation since Germany’s entry to the League. The idea of the possibility of war, he said, must be banished from the minds of tho nations. It was not only necessary to outlaw war, but conflicts which might lead to war must bo removed. The progress of disarmament was disappointing. Germany would cordially co-operate in the plans for an economic unidn in Europe with a view to establishing a better economic situation throughout the world. The chief Italian delegate (Signor Scialoja) followed in the same strain.