FOUR-POWER PACT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21468, 17 April 1933, Page 9

FOUR-POWER PACT

GERMAN ACCEPTANCE CAPTAIN GOERING'S ASSURANCE ROME, April 14 Germany has fully accepted.the FourPower Pact proposal, Captain Goering* who is visiting Italy, told journalists ! to-day. i Captain Goering expressed the hope ■ that the spirit of the pact will not ba ! modified in view of Herr Hitler's de- ! elaration that it is the only means of giving Europe peace for several deI cades. The Prussian Premier added:] I " My visit is for the purpose of intensii fying the need for air communication® between Germany and Italy." THE LESSER NATIONS _ NO COERCION INTENDED British Wireless RUGBY, April 14 i Referring in the House of Commons to-dav to Signor Mussolini's Four-Power i Pact proposals, Sir John bimon, ForeigOc Secretary, undertook to lay the papers on the table of the House /when' necessary. Leave to a'dopt such a course, thai Minister said, was obtained from those: with whom the Government had • been communicating. The Government had; made 110 commitments, nor had iti entered into any agreements _of any kind. It wanted, by consultation and; co-operation, to devise a plan by which, the risk of opposing blocs between ona nation and another would be minw mised. It was not the intention, said Sir) John, that these Powers should combine and attempt to impose their will! on any of the lesser hations. The object in view was to try to select certainquestions which might arise in Europaj and secure collaboration on them, eS* pecially in economic fields. l ~