LONDON TALKS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 92, 18 March 1936, Page 10

LONDON TALKS

WELCOME FOR GERMANY. MESSAGES EXCHANGED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received March 17, 1.35 p.m. RUGBY, March 16. The reply to the .League Council's invitation to the German Government to take part in the work of the present meetings in London was considered this afternoon, when the Council met first in private, then in secret,, and finally in a public session. When the Council met in public at 7.30, M. Elandin, on behalf of the Trench and Belgian delegations, proposed a resolution declaring that the Council finds that the Gorman Government has infringed the Treaties of Versailles and Locarno, and “invites'the Secretary-General, in the application of Article 4 (paragraph 2), to inform at once the signatory Powers of the treaties of the finding the Council has just reached.” The President (Mr S. M. Bruce) proposed the adjournment of consideration of the resolution, which lie thought desirable in view of the outcome of the discussion at the secret session of the German reply to the Council’s invitation to attend. He announced that a telegram had been sent to tlie German Government, which stated that Germany would' “participate in examination by the Council of tlio question submitted by the Belgian and French Governmgnts on the same terms as the representatives of the other guaranteed Powers whose situation under the treaty is the same as that of Germany, that is, with full rights of discussion, tlie votes of three Powers • not being counted in the calculation of unanimity,” The telegram adds in regal'd to tlie second question raised by Germany—that is that an early discussion open on the TYanco-Belgian resolution—it is evident that there will be a welcome for the German representative if by that time the German Government lias decided to accept the Council’s invitation. Failing that, any further communications from the German Government will come under consideration. “BURY TISTIIATCHEL" GERMANY AND FRANCE. PEOPLE’S AFFIRMATION. Received March 17, 1.15 p.m. FRANKFURT-ON-MAIN, March 16. “Germans 1 Do you want to bury the hatchet with France?” asked Herr Hitler of 25,000 hearers at the Exhibition Hall. He received the deafenyne reply: “Yes! Yes!” A crowd stood in flag-decked streets all day, awaiting Herr Hitler’s election address. Everyone cheered General Goering and General Von Blomberg en route to the Exhibition Hall. Special importance was attached to the occasion as it was the anniversary of the reintroduetion of conscription. The local Nazi Governor, Herr Sphrenger, opened the proceedings by declaring that Germany stood solid behind Herr Hitler. The populace in the Rhineland had had to live under the threat of foreign guns, but Germany had achieved all she had done by fighting and would continue to fight. Every negro tribe had the right of self defence; only Germany was not to have it. Herr Hitler, who spoke for 72 minutes, declared that the world must know there was only one will and one faith in Germany—that which the Fulirer expressed. He had not removed, but simplified, democracy. The world had formerly valued education, birth and knowledge, but new principles of courage, sacrifice, and unity must now be upheld. Every treaty originating in brute force, menace, and oppression would only be briefly tolerated by history.