LEAGUE COUNCIL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 21 March 1936, Page 7

LEAGUE COUNCIL

CONDEMNATION RESOLUTION

BERLIN PAPERS ANGRY “TYPICAL OF SPIRIT OF GENEVA” (Received 21st March, 5.30 a.m.) BERLIN, 20th March. The morning papers angrily attack the Council’s vote against Germany, describing it as untenable, hasty, petty, prejudiced, and typical of the spirit of Geneva.

THE RHINELAND

THE MILITARY ASPECT GERMANY’S ATTITUDE UNALTERABLE (Received 21st March, 8.30 a.m.) BERLIN, 19th March. The Foreign Office Spokesman expressed the opinion that Germany would welcome a demilitarised zone policed internationally if equally distributed in French, Belgian and German territory. He added: “We expected the League to condemn the remilitarisation of the Rhineland but we do not consider that the Council is inspired by heaven. Referring the Franco-Soviet Pact to The Hague Court may settle legalities but it will not alter the military aspect to which Germany’s attitude is unalterable.”

FRENCH VERSION OF DRAFT

DEMILITARISED ZONE SHOULD BE RE-ESTABLISHED STATEMENT BY M. BONCOUR PARIS, 19th March. The French version of the draft discloses that the demilitarised zone should be re-established for twenty kilometres o n the German side of the frontier. M. Paul Boncour, on his return from London, indicated that if Germany accepted The Hague proposals France would consider it tantamount to a return to legality and abadon the demand for the withdrawal of German troops from the Rhineland. “Le Temps” declares that all Herr von Ribbentrop’s arguments were false and have been contradicted a hundred times. “The Germans would like to throw the responsibility for the repudiation of Locarno on France but it is they who have massively re-armed and brutally violated the Versailles Treaty.” t. an ■