“DER TAG” GERMAN TOAST

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3289, 8 March 1926, Page 9

“DER TAG” GERMAN TOAST

ENTRY TO THE LEAGUE COUNCIL

Responsibility for Preventing Changes MUST BE BOENE BY LOCAENOITES In 1914, before the great war, the toast “der tag” was drunk nightly In the German navy, in 1920 the “consummation devoutly to be desired” is of peaceful significance. To-day, at Geneva, is (be appointed time of the assembly of thp League of Nations to consider Germany’s application for membership. [By Electric Cable-—Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z- Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 6. It appears the admission of Germany will be a long drawn process. First she will be elected to membership, thereafter to a permanent scat, involving a succession meeting of the Council of the assembly, whereat Germans will not be present. It may be midweek before Gormans Bit at the League table, affording ample time for informal conversations. At least six Premiers will be present at Geneva. Sir Joseph Cook and Sir James Allen went to Switzerland to-day. Antipodean Line of Action. Sir Austen Chamberlain, after meeting other Locarnoites, meets the Dominions' delegations for the purpose of assimilating procedure. It is understood Sir Joseph Cook and Sir James Allen have been instructed to co-opcrate with Sir Austen Chamberlain in connection with the immediate admission of Germany to a permanent seat on the Council, but they are not committing themselves on contentious questions such as the enlargement of tho Council, (he admission of Poland, Spain and Brazil, until further instructed. Strescmann’s Final Admonition. Herr Strosemann, interviewed by Lady Drummond Hay t , Daily Express correspondent, on the eve of departing for Geneva,, said rospoonsibility for preventing changes to th e League, on the occasion of Germany’s entry, must bo borne in good faith by the so-called Locarno Powers. Up Speaks Spanish Dictator. General Prlmo de Rivera, in an Interview in Madrid, said; “I consider it is not only right, in the national ntercsts of Spain, to have a permanent scat but in the interests of the world, because Spain genuinely represents a neutral, conciliatory attitude in problems which fall to League solution. SWEDEN OPPOSES ENLARGEMENT. OTHER THAN GERMANY’S ADMISSION. (Received Sunday,, 5.35 p.m.) . STOCKHOLM, March 6. Leaders of all parties, in the Rikstad, emphatically endorsed the statement, made by the Foreign Minister, on the eve of going to Geneva, that Swedish delegates to the League Assembly would oppose any proposal to reorganise the Council, in the course of tho March session, apart from the admission of Germany. CZECHO-SLAVIA AND HUNGARY. INVOKING TREATY IN LOCARNO’S NAME. _____ ( (Received Sunday, 9.45 p.m.) VIENNA, March 6. Czecho Slovakia, favours enlarging tho membership of the League council, according to Foreign Minister Benos p who was interviewed here. He added a treaty with Hungary should not be difficult in the spirit of Locarno.