VITAL QUESTIONS TO HERR HITLER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 17 June 1936, Page 3

VITAL QUESTIONS TO HERR HITLER

POINTS TO BE CLEARED UP (By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, 14th May. Time will show whether Germany will be prepared to answer the questions we have addressed to her in the same frank and helpful spirit as that in which they are framed. If it is believed that the soft answer turneth away wrath our Government has evidently assumed that the soft question causeth no resentment. Herr Hitler cannot complain that we are interrogating or cross-questioning him upon his good faith, or that we are dwelling upon points that are of any selfish interest to ourselves. Until the first point in particular is cleared - up it must be obvious to everyone that there can be no use in entering upon negotiations for any European settlement. The sanctity of treaties lias been so badly shaken of late that no nation will feel it worth while entering into any more of them until all the contracting parties have acknowledged that they are acting of their own free will and not under any real or imaginary “inferiority complex.”