PLEA FOR AMITY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22259, 6 November 1935, Page 13

PLEA FOR AMITY

GERMAN MINISTER GESTURE TO FRANCE GOERING'S DECLARATION NO NEED TO FIGHT AGAIN By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON. Nov. 4 A despatch from Paris states that M. Herriot, speaking at Lyons, warned M. Laval that the Left would not tolerate an understanding Germany which would permit of her expansion eastward at the expense of Russia. A message from Berlin says that hints of . the desirability of an improvement in relations between France and Germany are cautiously examined in the Gorman press, which professes not to know the official reaction to what is proposed at Geneva. General Goering, in a speech in the Saar, asked when the French would finally abandon the senseless idea that Germany was lying in wait to fall upon them. The two peoples in the Great War had learned to respect each other and there was no need to test their strength in another conflict. Germany would rather compete with France in peaceful work in which a rearmed Germany could make a definite contribution, because a defenceless country was always a great temptation to its neighbours.