GERMAN SHACKLES

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2243, 26 June 1929, Page 7

GERMAN SHACKLES

AS FRITZ SEES THEM THE YOUNG PLAN NATIONAL MOURNING Rhineland evacuation • •Jyfy'j' ’*•* , .v/'* .;''* ‘•’ ! 'y.rV. x ' l ./ r .‘(A|Cst and N.Z. Cable) ! . -Berlin, June 25. Speaking in the Reichstag, Count Westarp, the Nationalist loader, denounced : sho Government's foreign policy.^contended, tlmt ; the Young jPlan exceeded Germany's capacity and was not acceptable without; the unconditional evacuation of the, Rhino and the Saar.

I)h in replying; declared plant. of settlement for 10 years signiiicd an easing of Germanys chains. Ther c was no question of the Government agreeing to a conciliation committee as the jiricc of the evacuation of the Rhineland. Th 0 Government was prepared to abandon all negotiations if an attempt were made to create a permanent Rhineland 'committee. Dr Strescmann incidentally poured scorn on Dr Hugenbergs idea that the worst economic crisis would be better for Germany than the Young Plan. lls said the failure of the reparations plan would annihilate what, remained of tile German middle class from the inflation days and he could envisage nothing more disastrous for the covyitry. President Himjcnburg and tli e Government support; national mourning day demonstrations on the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Versailles Treaty. Nobody in Germany had % ever acknowledged that Germany was solely responsible for the war.'