GERMAN ATTITUDE
REFUSAL OF GENEVA. (United Press Association—By Electric Tel egraph—Copy right.) . .BERLIN). October 14. It is understood that Germany will maintain her refusal to go to Geneva as the French proposal for a meeting at Geneva, is based; on the standpoint that tlie Disarmament Conference must not be deprived of dealing with Germany’s demand for equality, which is what Germany desires to avoid. Consequently Germany’s acceptance of Geneva would 1 be tantamount to capitulation and participation in the Disarmament. Conference before her equality claim is admitted. Germany is prepared to meet the Powers in any other locality, hoping thereby to- induce France to change the venue.
Regarding >a report from London that Britain was proposing a ten years’ political status quo, German political circles are of the opinion that such a truce would be unacceptable and that a confernce based thereon would be useless. Cabinet endorsed Captain von Papen’s refusal to accept Geneva for the preliminary Conference, and it is now stated that Lausanne is equally unsuitable, lessening the chance of the Conference materialising.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19321017.2.54
Bibliographic details
Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1932, Page 6
Word Count
175GERMAN ATTITUDE Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1932, Page 6
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in