GERMANY’S AIMS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 257, 13 October 1932, Page 7

GERMANY’S AIMS

RESTORATION TO FULL SOVEREIGNTY FREEDOM AND EQUALITY OF RIGHTS. REFORMS TO BE EFFECTED. (United Preu Association—By CableCopyright.) (Received 13, 10.30 a.m.) Berlin, Oct 12. “No statesmen acknowledging a nation’s fundamental rights as the safest guarantee of peace can oppose Germany’s restoration to full sovereignty, freedom and equality of rights,” declared Herr von Papen. “The time has definitely come to reform the Weimer Constitution and create an unshakeable Government authority above party. Germany needs an Upper Chamber closely identified with the legislators. Reforms will be effected in consultation with the States. Prussia will not be absorbed but Reich-Prussia dualism -will be abolished.”

VERSAILLES TREATY GUARANTEE.

MR LLOYD GEORGE’S COMMENT.

(Received 13, 12.20 p.m.) London, Oct. 12.

“The signatories to the Versailles Treaty, of whom I. was one, gave Germany a guarantee that they would follow her example if she would disarm in accordance with the treaty. We have not done it,” declared Mr. Lloyd George at the International Peace Society meeting. “When the treaty was signed,” he continued, “the majority of the signatories had no intention of fulfilment. Germany feels that she has been duped. That is Europe’s danger to-day. There is no greater peril to world peace than a people justly angry at the treatment accorded them.”