STEP-BY-STEP PEACE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 161, 24 June 1935, Page 7

STEP-BY-STEP PEACE

GERMANY’S ADVOCACY Pact Not Aimed at France TRIPLE ACCORD NEXT (by Telegraph-Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 24, 0.15 am.) LONDON, Juno 23. The Foreign Office states that the Angol-Gernmn conversations followed friendly lines similar to those with

representatives of other Governments. Though the views exchanged were necessarily tentative, suggestions regarding naval limitation would be confidentially communicated to other Powers.

Herr Ribbentrop, interviewed, Interpreted the agreement as the beginning of a practical peace policy, since it had permanently settled the vital AngloGerman naval problem. Europe previously had undertaken too tnueh instead of tackling its problems seriatim. A collective peace system was the cart before the horse. Germany wanted a system based on facts, not theories, of friendship. This should be the foundation of any League of Nations; but we could get there only step by step. Herr Ribbentrop scouted tho insinuation that Germany had attempted to drive a wedge between France and England. He ndded, “We are now on the best road to secure close collaboration between England, France and Germany.”

In a communique regarding the Anglo-German naval conversations, issued by the Foreign Office, ft was stated that there had been full and frank exchanges of views on such questions as future qualitative limits and programmes of future naval construction. A statement both of Germany'c views and of the suggestion of His Majesty’s Government in regard to n future general agreement on naval limitation will be communicated confidentially to the Governments of other interested Powers in future discussions with their representative*.