HOW MR.SNOWDEN WON

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2303, 4 September 1929, Page 6

HOW MR.SNOWDEN WON

MILLIONS FOR BRITAIN HE WOULD NOT BUDGE NEW SPIRIT IN INTERNATIONAL POLICY (Alist, aii'il N.Z. Cable) London, Kept. -■ 1 ‘‘This is Loudon railing the British Empire,” was the announcer’s intimation when Mr Philip Knowden took the microphone at 9.5 touiight to describe Th c Hague Conference. His story was largely a recapitulation, but ht« disclosed that on the final night at 8.45 he put down under six heads Britain’s minimum demands. “AT. .Jaspar, who was acting as intermediary, returned in hulf-an-hour with an advance of £100,900. 1 said: ‘At the same rate of progress you will reach our demands by midnight.’ “M. Jaspar returned in a quarter of an hour with another £50.000. I said: ‘You ary doing first rate. Be not weary in well doing.' He said : ‘I cannot do more. You have emptied our pockets.’ In a kindly way l said: ‘Go through your pockets again and be sure you liiul enough to meet what is between us!” “Af. Jaspar replied: ‘You are too hard. 1 hav c never seen a man like you. You are what, we in our country would call a type.’ “Someone had a brain wave and We got what we wanted at midnight and tliy conference was saved.” In closing, Mr Knowden said: “I think it will make a profound impression on our relations in Euroi>e. There will by no reversion to the spineless policy of recent years. We have reasserted Britain’s rights in international agreements and we won the respect of other Powers. It will liberate the countries of Europe to pursue their economic reconstruction. Above all. it. has brought a new •.pint into international policy and will help to bring that peace which the people so passionately desire.”

A GERMAN VIEW BUT SETTLEMENT IK POPULAR Taking hi* stand fit Wurzburg beside thy monument of Arminius, who led the Germanic tribes against the Roman legions, Herr llugenburg, the Nationalist leader, inaugurated a campaign planned to culminate in a referendum against the Younng plan. Pointing to the sword of Arrhenius, lie declared Germany's sword had been snapped awny and would not be restored until theii* hearts were again strong. A Bavarian speaker said ih e tight for freedom inust be waged both against the enemy on the Rhine and it home. Th 0 “Steelholm’s” representative demanded thy 1 ‘‘inculcation of the military idea,” and avowed his .faith in tli e sword. Numerous similar Nationalist and Fascist demonstrations were hold against thy Young plan and the "war guilt lie,” including parades of steel holms. The ex-Crown Prince Ruppreeht who was notably for the previous moderation of his public utterances, in a speech at Munich attacking the Young plan, uttered a warning against driving thy Germans to desperation and Bolshevism. Nevertheless German sentiment is undoubtedly in favour of Thy Hague settlement. The Government has received numerous messages of congratulation, notably from the Rhineland, where tile German Commissar of thy occupied territory declared: “We have now arrived at a new starting point of world history enabling the Germans to know when They will ;c free.”