GERMAN SITUATION

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 105, 15 April 1933, Page 8

GERMAN SITUATION

OUTBURST IN THE COMMONS SIR A. CHAMBERLAIN'S ATTACK. SERIOOS VIEW TAKE! By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright LONDON, April 14. In the House of Commons Sir Austen Chamberlain made a trenchant attack on Germany. He said: “Frankly, I view the pre- , sent situation in Europe with grave anxiety. I cannot pretend to conceal the state of uncertainty in which the world has been left concerning what actually was proposed or agreed to at Rome. What has passed in Germany seems to me to render this a singularly inopportune moment to talk about the revision of treaties.” Amid cheers Bit Austen ••k<d: “What is this new spirit of German nationalism I It is the worst of rhe old Prussian imperialism with ao'-le l savagery, pride and excliMive.-.eec, No subject not of pure Nordic b./’.t. ai.l have equality right i of eitizenah.p to the nation to which they belo .g. Are you going to discuss revision with a Government like that! (Loud cheers). Will you dare to put another pole under the wheel of sneb a Governmeut as long as Germany la affee’ed by this narrow, exclusive spirit which says it is a crime to be in favour of peace and a crime to be a Jew! That is not the Germany to which we can afford to make concessions. Before you can disarm or urge others to disarm you must see a Germany whose mind is turned to peace aud who will use equality of status not to menace the safety of others. Tho Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill said that so surely as Germany acquired military equality while her grievances were unredressed and while she was in her present temper, so surely would we be within measurable distance of the renewal of a general European war.