SERIOUS VIEW

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 63, 12 February 1936, Page 7

SERIOUS VIEW

OF GERMAN REARMAMENT. CONCERN IN BRITAIN. FUTURE OF EUROPE. ' (United Press Association—By Electric T elegraph.—Copyright.) Received February 12, 11.20 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 11. The Manchester Guardian’s diplomatic correspondent says that Government quarters take a most serious view of the German rearmament. Though they had never regarded it lightly, they did not foresee how all the moral and material resources of the nation would be subordinated to it.

it is now thought in London that British rearmament must be hastened as a matter of the gravest urgency. The weakness of tlie collective system makes it necessary that Britain should be able to repel the attack of the strongest European Power. Simultaneously, every effort will be made to strengthen the collective system.

Britain is mors deeply involved in European affairs titan at any time since the end of the War. The general opinion in Whitehall seems to be that, if Britain remains aloof from Europe a general war is inevitable. War may be averted if Britain is sufficiently strong and also takes an active part in tbs consolidation of collective security.

The close British and French relations and the signs of concord between England and Russia have already persuaded Rumania and Poland that the collective system is not the shaky structure it formerly appeared. Germany is losing tlie belief that she can expand by dealing piecemeal with her neighbours, whom she is now realising are parts of a system to which Britain also belongs. This has caused the deepest disappointment to Herr Hitler, whose declared policy lias been to detach Britain from Europe. Germany’s foreign policy is likely to become more cautious. Indications are that she will first raise the question of coolnies, which does not concern raw materials but prestige, but British official opinion is that Germany has not the slightest chance of recovering a single colony. Germany is also likely to decide the most effective way of recovering the demilitarised zone before the end of the year, as she cannot expand eastwards or towards Austria until she has secured her rear by fortifying the demilitarised zonet TRAINING OF LEADERS. SHOUTING NOT SUFFICIENT. Received February 12, 12 noon. BERLIN, Feb. 11Inaugurating training courses for Nazi political leaders, the Reich’s Leader, Dr. Frausnfelder, said: Nothing can be done by only shouting “Hail Hitler!” We must now act in accordance with the principles of our movement by organising the labour front.