PEACE QUEST.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 205, 31 July 1939, Page 2

PEACE QUEST.

SUGGESTIONS IN THE RRESS. APPEAL TO GERMANS. LONDON, June 23. A discussion is proceeding in the correspondence columns of the Times regarding methods of ending the succession of crises and achieving a bettor atujosphcre with a view to consolidating peace. Sir Arthur Salter. ALR.. a member of the British Economic Advisory Council, suggests that the British Government should immediately and publicly declare what it is prepared to do to meet Germany's just complaints Afr Lansbury, the Pacifist Labour M.P., recommends a round table conference of world Powers. Air Edw.vn Beviin, chairman of Urn Triumph Engineering Co., of Coventry, supports Sir Arthur Salter’s plan, and asserts that the most important aim is to reach the German people "d to convince them of the reasonableness of Britain’s policy. German delegates, he says, if they agreed to attend such a conference —which is unlikely—would not represent the sane and peace-loving German people Air Bevan continues: : “The most urgent German demands to he submitted to the conference would undoubtedly l>o the return of the colonies. AYc could not agree to this, and tile Germans would reject, with ridicule, any proposals we might make for equalising tilings in tho colonial field by some sort of general international control. Moreover, we should also have a demand to make, namely, to ask Germany immediatclv to evacuate Bolieniia-Moravin. Therefore, the conference would not succeed because there is little possibility of finding a compromise without concessions on our part, which would bo equivalent. to a bestraval. “Thus there is greater hope of a method whereby both sides—Britain and France taking the initiative—should make an approach towards an amicable discussion, abandoning excessive claims which, if tho conference were notified with all the world listening, could not he toned down without grievous loss of Nazi face.”