DOMINION'S FRONTIER IS RHINE

Evening Star, Issue 25776, 26 April 1946, Page 6

DOMINION'S FRONTIER IS RHINE

FRENCH MINISTER EMPHATIC GERMANY'S FUTURE MISTRUSTED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 26. An attack on the argument that Germany should be allowed to rise again as quickly as possible in order not to disturb the " sacred harmony of trade and finance," and an assertion that New Zealand's frontiers, just as those of France, were on the Rhine, were made by the French Minister to New Zealand, M. Armand Gazel, at the Anzac Day service at Karori. Frenchmen, said M. Gazel, desired to see their good feelings toward Britain and the Empire—because even more than in 1919 French good feelings were turning in that direction—materialise into a treaty of alliance, and _ they had another wish, just as precise, that Germany should be placed in a position to prevent her for ever from starting any future war of conquest and domination for Germany. The Frenchman wished no solution of revenge. He did not want an inch of German territory, but in the light of past experience he demanded these tilings: That the- Ruhr cease to be the arsenal of Germany; that the Saar be attached definitely to French economy; and that Rhineland, whence so many German aggressions had started, he made an autonomous State under Allied control.