MILITARISM IN GERMANY.
STRESEMANN'S STATEMENT FOREIGN POLICY UNALTERED. SECRET ARMY A FAIRY TALE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received May- 10, 8.5 p.m.) Times. BERLIN, May 9. The Foreign Minister, Herr Stresemann, addressed a meeting of the People's Party to-day. He said yesterday's parade of the " Steel Helmets" and similar demonstrations connected with the traditions of the old German Army, did not indicate a departure from the Government's foreign policy. Such organisations, he said, were only a psychological reflex of the one-sided disarmament policy. The suggestion tliat a secret, dormant army existed alongside the Reichswehr —an army which would awaken in a flash and hurl itself against Germany's neighbours—was a mere fairy tale, worthy of Jules Verne. Herr Stresemann recalled the declaration of the Cabinet that it had renounced all idea of a policy of revenge. "My own name," he said, " is so closely identified with Germany's foreign policy that I could not remain Foreign Minister if it were altered."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19633, 11 May 1927, Page 11
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