EUROPEAN DEADLOCK

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 23 April 1935, Page 5

EUROPEAN DEADLOCK

Statesmen “Look Backwards Instead of Forwards” OLD IDEALS CONSERVED GERMANY HUMILIATED

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). LONDON, April 22. “Europe has reached a dangerous deadlock,” says Mr B. Ward Price, the “Daily Mail’s” special correspondent, from Berlin. “Statesmen of all countries are looking backwards instead df forwards and conserving old international relations instead of constructing new ones.

“The only power benefiting from the activities of the past ten days is Russia, whose main business under M. Litvinoff’s influence is the registration of new military alliances. This zeal dates only from the revival of Germany’s national spirit under Herr Hitler. All other countries were worse off.

“The St res a negotiations have not reduced armaments by- a single rifle but have merely put back the clock •on {understanding between Germany and western Powers, without which peace will be impossible. Germans regard the Geneva vote as an insult and a humiliation, putting the possibility of Germany’s return to the League out of sight and preventing her participation in the Rome conference in May regarding Austria’s independence. “A worse sequel is that it is making Germany hitter against Britain. Highly placed Germans say that when they talked to Sir John Simon they understood the entire past would he blotted out to enable Britain and Germany to work together on a basis of complete equality to secure peace in Europe.” The “Daily Mail” asks whether the British support of the censure of Germany by the League of Nations was not unparalleled' folly. “Britain has no quarrel, and Germany cannot understand the discrimination against her, as if she alone departed from the terms of the Versailles Treaty,” says the article. “England, France and Italy must hear the brunt of the onslaught in the event of war. Germany, who, in 1914-18, nearly defeated the whole world, will rely on her air arm in the next year. This supreme consideration should govern British counsel.”