HITLER AGREES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 80, 16 March 1936, Page 7

HITLER AGREES

ENVOY TO LONDON RESERVATIONS MADE Britain Supported Invitation LULL IN THE NEGOTIATIONS (By Telegraph—Press Assn., Copyright.) (Received 16, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, March 15. It is unofficially stated that Herr Hitler will accept the League Council’s invitation to send a representative to London. Herr Hitler makes two important reservations. His reply was received at St. James’s Palace at 7 p.m. and was translated by the League Secretariat and circulated to members of the League.

There is considerable discussion in diplomatic circles in London concerning Herr Hitler’s declaration in his Munich speech that the German Government will not tolerate being continually dragged before international tribunals.

The “Observer’s” diplomatic correspondent says that one of the decisive considerations understood to have influenced Saturday’s conversations in London was the clear fact that unless means could be discovered for bringing Germany into the conversations there was no alternative to convening the Council at once and recommending economic and financial sanctions.

Mr Anthony Eden, British Foreign Minister, spent considerable time today with officials at the Foreign Office, but there were no formal Ministerial

Reports of Saturday’s meeting of the League Council and of an address at Munich by Herr Hitler appear on page 8.

talks of any kind pending receipt bj the Secretary-General of the League in London of the German reply to the League Council’s invitation. There has been a comparative lull in the negotiations.

It is known that the British member of the Council was one of those who gave strongest support at yesterday's private meeting to the proposal that a special invitation should be addressed to the German Government to take its part in the examination of the matter which had been brought before the League by the French and Belgian Governments, and it is understood that the British Ambassador at Berlin, Sir Eric Phipps, informed the German Government of the great importance which the British Government attached to acceptance of this invitation as facilitating difficult negotiations and being an earnest desire for amicable settlement.

News of the receipt of the German reply has therefore been eagerly awaited in London all day.

According to an earlier message, the Berlin Press commented cautiously on the invitation, though it seemed to believe that there were indications of favourable developments for Germany.