PROSPECTS OF PEACE

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 6 March 1935, Page 8

PROSPECTS OF PEACE

Hope for Improving Conditions After Period of Disappointment FOREIGN SECRETARY’S VIEWS PROPOSED VISIT TO BERLIN (British Official Wireless) Received 2.30 p.m. to-day. RUGBY, March 5. Speaking at Bristol last night and referring to Britain’s army estimates. Sir John Simon, the Foreign Secretary, said that after a long period; of delay and disappointment there was new hope for improving conditions on which their prospects of peace must rest. The action of the British Government in showing itself willing to provide troops for maintaining order in the Saar had 1 made an impression on Europe and had undoubtedly contributed to a peaceful conclusion of the recent meeting between the French and British Ministers in London. It had established compjlete agreement between the two Governments, and the proposal for an air convention had been welcomed by Germany. He had intended going nest Thursday with Mr Eden to Germany, and it was right and natural that after the meetings in Rome, Paris and London a similar meeting should take place in Berlin. He would undertake the journey fully conscious of the tremendous issues which depended on the conversations, and the one wish of them all was that they should prove a contribution to the restoration of European confidence and the peace of the world.

Owing to the indisposition of HenHitler, the visit to Berlin of Sir John and Mr Eden, fixed for Thfirpd’ay, had to he postponed. A communique issued from Berlin says : “On the occasion of his visit to Saarbrucken, the leader contracted a slight cold, together with great hoarseness. On his doctor’s orders eoriversa-fcions arranged for the immediate future have been cancelled m order to spare his voice. In these circumstances the German. Government has conveyed to the British Ambassador, through the Minister for Foreign Affairs, a request that the visit arranged for the English Ministers may be postponed. A message has been conveyed to the German Foreign Minister from the British Government, through the Ambassador in Bex-lin. expressing regret with which the British Government has learnt of the Chancellor’s indisposition, and its hopes for his speedy recovery.