EQUALITY DEMAND

Hokitika Guardian, 10 February 1934, Page 5

EQUALITY DEMAND

IN ARMAMENTS

HITLER'S PRESENT ATTITUDE.

(United Pr e( aa Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

BERLIN, February 8.

After solution of the Saar problem, preferably without a plebiscite, Germany would accept the Locarno Pact, in its entirety, declared Herr Hitler, at a meeting of the Reichstag, in the Kroll Opera House, marking the completion of the first year of the Nazi regime.

Britain’s disarmament plan would he examined with the utmost good will. The best contribution to real peace would be insistence upon restitution of Germany’s honour and equality. Germany was willing to do everything to prove that nobody threatened the security c-f France, whose nobility had been again and again demonstrated on the battlefields, but Germany demanded equality, which nothing could permanently prevent. A new war would lead to international chaos. Tlie unsat.isfactoriness of iAustroGerman relationships was not < Germany’s fault. Germany had not planned to violate Austria-, though the German idea could not .halt at the frontiers of a country which throughout centuries was part of the German Empire.

• Austria must take the consequences of forcibly suppressing Nazism.' Germany could not tolerate the humiliation" of her 1 tourists in Austria.