INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK

Evening Star, Issue 22367, 17 June 1936, Page 13

INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK

AN AUCKLANDER'S IMPRESSIONS [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, June 17, After, visiting France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, and other countries, Mr Brian Dunningham, of Auckland, who returned in the Wanganella to-day, describes European relations at the moment as being a “ gunpowder plot, needing only a spark to set it off.” In the United States Mr Dunningham made the acquaintance of the Dean of Canterbury, and accompanied him as secretary through Canada, subsequently visiting Europe with influential introductions. He said that Germany was the focal point, as there war was held to be the only solution to the piesent financial troubles. Germany in a military sense was by far the best-prepared country in Europe. The occupation of the Rhine was only a minor act in a much bigger play. His information from influential sources supported the belief that what Germany wanted was a piece of Russia. Her eyes were on the southern oil fields and grain lands of the Ukraine. He saw many evidences of military preparedness. __________