BISMARCK DOCTRINE

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 5 March 1935, Page 5

BISMARCK DOCTRINE

German View that Speeches do not Settle Questions POWER GREATER THAN IN 1914 GREAT BRITAIN’S PERIL (Unitod Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 2.15 ,p.m. to-day. LONDON, March 4. The Daily Mail, in a leading article, says that Sir John Simon goes from London is an atmosphere of pacifism and sentimentalism and .rnusv suddenly acclimatise himself to Berlin’s stark realism of Herr Hitler’s administration—a first line of fighters brought up on the Bismarck doctrine that speeches would not settle great questions, but iron discipline, and preparedness to face death in a worthy cause.

Germany’s striking power is greater than in 1914-, when, solely allied by ramshackle Austria, she w r as' within a hairsbreadth of defeating England, France, Russia, Serbia and Belgium. Mr Ramsay MacDonald’s statement shows the Government at last confess Britain’s peril. There is every indication that President Hitler desires most friendly relations with Britain, but Germany wmuld respect Britain more if she w r ere strong. The sooner Britain’s' weakness is removed, the safer will be the peace of Europe.