HITLER'S CONSISTENT POLICY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 December 1936, Page 16

HITLER'S CONSISTENT POLICY

GERMANY AND VERSAILLES (By Air Mail—-From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, 19th November. Too much has been made in some quarters of Germany’s latest repudiation of the Versailles Treaty. As though any sane person imagined, once Hitler started his rake’s progress of tearing up the Peace Treaty, he would stop short until the whole make-belief was gone. Only two courses were open to the Allies who signed on the dotted line at Versailles —to insist on strict conformity to treaty terms or ignore the whole bag of tricks. In fact Germany has never from the very start kept her faith. As the Allied Arms Commission know well, she never disarmed in reality. Which was the bigger mistake —the flouting of the first German Socialist regime or the ignoring of its successor’s flouting of the Peace Treaty—remains a problem for the historian. ' The repudiation of International .River Control will affect only Czechoslovakia to any real extent. But Danzig and Memel may Ije the final gesture. What then?