GERMAN AMBASSADOR

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 October 1930, Page 10

GERMAN AMBASSADOR

DEPARTURE FROM BRITAIN.

[BBITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.]

RUGBY, September 29.

The Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr Arthur Henderson, and Mrs. Arthur'Henderson gave-a farewell luncheon yesterday to the German Ambassador, Dr. Sthamer, and Madame Sthamer, who are leaving London this week.

The Prime Minister and other members of the Cabinet and their wives were present, and the other guests included Lord and Lady D’Abernon, Sir Austen and Lady Chamberlain, and Sir Horace and Lady Rumbold.

Mr Henderson said that they were bidding farewell to an Ambassadoi who, in the course of his tenure of no less than ten years of his post, had succeeded in establishing many firm and lasting friendships. He recalled the difficult circumstances in which Dr Sthamer had first assumed his duties, and said that he and Madame Sthamer would carry with them in their retirement the good wishes of all who had come into contact with them during their official mission to London. Dr. Sthamer, replying, said that wiiilst he regretted that the pleasant personal and official relations established in London were coming to an end, he was fully conscious of the fact that his mission to London had attained the object for which it was His Government had entrusted him with the work of trying to tide over the atmosphere which the war had created and he was very glad to be able to say to-day that his efforts in this respect had not been unsuccessful. A friendly atmosphere had been created and he was looking hopefully into the future. To his mind the best way and the most effective means of securing lasting peace had been the policy of patience and conciliation, which would for ever be connected with the name of Dr. Stressemann, a policy which had led to The Hague Conference, and to the first step in the pacification of the world by freeing Germany from foreign occupation and control. He added that Great Britain might rest assured that this policy would be continued unaltered by the German Government and would contribute to bringing about, step by step, the pacification of Europe and would help at the same time to still further improve the relations between the two nations. [lt was stated in the Berlin Press some time ago that Dr. Sthamer’s successor would be Baron von Neurath.]