STAND TOGETHER OR FALL SEPARATELY

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6836, 18 April 1932, Page 7

STAND TOGETHER OR FALL SEPARATELY

National Selfishness leans Ruin CHAMBERLAIN’S CLARION CALL TO WORLD United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Sunday, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, April 16. Sir Austen Chamberlain, in the course of a statement, said: “We have put our house in order and balanced our Budget. We can now face the future confidently, but not alone. Other nations must contribute if the world is to recover its lost prosperity. Unless we stand together we shall fall one after another into the common pit of misery and decay. “The policy of each for himself and the devil take the hindmost has gone into the past. Americans, Englishmen and Europeans must remember that they are also citizens of the world. “One longs for a Stresemann again. Hitler is no Stresemann, Let us pray that no folly may be attempted, lest reaction in Germany should breed reaction elsewhere. The principle that the. United States proclaimed for China—that changes due to force will not be recognised—needs a firm assertion for Europe, after which we would be astonished by the progress immediately possible. “Does the United States yet recognise, as Europe does, that there is a stronger desire for agreement and co-operation? If Europe seeks salvation by mutual sacrifice she will turn to America, expecting her to be not less unselfish and far-see-ing. There Is no cure for the evil from which the world is suffering unless the war debts are dealt with simultaneously in the same spirit as the reparations abolition, which Americans desire no less than Englishmen. Europe’s sacrifices will be vain unless wisdom and understanding are also given to the American people.”

Protection for Britain, Freer Trade for Europe STANLEY BALDWIN’S FINE DISTINCTION Received Sunday, 9.40 p.m. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, April 17. Dealing with tho European outlook in the courso of a speech in North Wales last night, Mr. Stanley Baldwin said that nothing had done more harm economically than splitting Eero no into many would-be self-sufficient Stares and the post-war mentality that made all these small units believe they could be self-sufficient. This had created in Europe a vast network of prohibitions and tariffs which were interfering more than anything else with that freer trade which was essential for tho world.

Seen Behind the Scenes at Geneva FRANCE SEEKING POWER, MONEY AND. MUNITIONS. LONDON, April 15. A. vivid description of European complications as seen at Genova is given by Mr. Grecnwall, the Daily Express special representative, who depicts a scramble by the Balkan Powers for money. Prance is seeking further powers to help her satclitcs, while she, herself, is choked with hoarded gold. True, France lent millions of francs to Jugoslavia and Hungary, but benefited largely by orders for munitions placed by these Balkan countries. The works of Le Creusot and the Skoda works, formerly Austrian, . but now Czechoslovakian, received many large orders for the Balkan States. The Financial Commission of the League, which expressed regret that so much was spent on war preparations, recommends a loan of 131 million dollars to Austria and 10 million dollars to Greece.

It is clear the hegemony of France, established in 1919, is beginning to totter; now France has conceived tho idea of making the League a super-State, but, says Mr. Greenwall, unless France abandons the idea America will not remit a cent of the war debts., while he understands Britain definitely has decided not to grant any help to tho Balkan countries unless she is convinced they desire to help themselves.