BRITISH NOTE
ANGRY GERMAN COMMENT | “NO CONTRIBUTION TO PEACE” ' I A Hv Klffftrir Telegraph -Copyright' (Received 30th June, 9.20 a.m.) BERLIN, 29th June. Herr Hitler's newspaper, the “Voelkischer Beobachter.” says: “The British Note makes no contribution to peace and merely justifies the cancellation of the Naval Treaty. Mr Chamberlain selected the twentieth anniversary of Versailles to reply to a memorandum received two months ago. Is Britain playing for time, as at Munich, or is she wishing to beat down Moscow's demands by hinting at a possible understanding with Germany? "The Note’s last sentence is a piece of impudence. One looks vainly for a reply to the Fuhrer’s speech of 28th April, in which he offered England the hand of peace. The Note merely de-
nies the encirclement with meagre words to the contrary. The cardinal mistake is the attempt to reduce the Naval Treaty to a mere technical instrument for limiting naval armament. If this is Britain’s view, then Germany was created in 1935.’
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 June 1939, Page 5
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