SIGNIFIES EASING OF GERMANY’S SHACKLES

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6945, 26 June 1929, Page 7

SIGNIFIES EASING OF GERMANY’S SHACKLES

The Young Plan

NATIONAL MOURNING ON TREATY ANNIVERSARY RHINELAND EVACUATION. United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. Received Tuesday 9.30 p.m. BERLIN, June 25. While speaking in the Reichstag, Count Westarp, the Nationalist leader, denounced the government’s foreign policy. He contended that the Young i Pian exceeded Germany’s capacity and jyas not accexd.ablc without the unconditional evacuation of the Rhine and the Sarr.

Dr. Strcsemann, in replying, declared the plan of settlement for ten years signified an* easing of Germany’s chains. There was no question of the government agreeing to a conciliation committoo as tho price of tho evacuation of the Rhineland. The government was prepared to abandon nil negotiations if an attempt were ijmdo to create a permanent Rhineland committee. Dr. Strcsemann incidentally poured scorn on Dr. Hugcnberg’s idea that the worst economic crisis would bo better for Germany than the Young plan. Ho said the failure of the reparations plan would annihilate what remained of the German middle class from the inflation days and he could envisage nothing more disastrous for the country. President Hindonburg and the government supported national mourning day demonstrations on the tenth anniversary of tho signing of the Versailles treaty. Nobody in Germany had ever acknowledged tliat Germany was solely responsible for tho war.