RUSSIA AND GERMANY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 19 April 1922, Page 5

RUSSIA AND GERMANY.

HERR RATHENAU EXPLAINS.

LONDON, April 17. The Daily Express 5 Genoa correspondent interviewed Herr Rathenau (head of the German delegation), who said the economic treaty was a necessity. He added: "I want to emphasise j&at the Rapallo negotiations with the ~~{JEtnssians were a continuance of the - Busso-German negotiations at Berlin. We did not come to a definite conclusion at Berlin, because Germany felt Genoa might produce something tan.gible. "Germany saw herself isolated the first moment of the conference, and was alarmed when she saw the Allies .and Russia in secret conclave at Mr Lloyd George's villa. Germany thought that if the Allies and Russia combined paragraph 116 of the Versailles* Treaty would be put into effect. Our only course was to get together with the Russians, which was done." -