GRAVE SITUATION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22465, 8 July 1936, Page 13

GRAVE SITUATION

CONCERN IN EUROPE BRITISH CABINET MEETING TENSION AT GENEVA By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON, July « Europe is watching Danzig. The outburst of Herr Greiser, President of the Danzig Senate, at Geneva, is regarded as a sinister development and revives anxieties, especially in the present nervous state of European diplomacy. Herr Greiser is assured of a hero's welcome when he returns to Danzig. The Nazi leader, Herr Forster, is prepared to head the welcoming party. Co-operation between Herr Greiser and Mr. Sean Lester, the League's High Commissioner, is now regarded as out of the question. Fortunately the week-end passed off quietly. Herr Greiser's speech was broadcast amid scenes of indescribable enthusiasm among Nazi crowds in tho .streets of Danzig. There were no clashes with non-Nazis. The Sun-Herald news service says th« seriousness of the Danzig situation can be gauged by the summoning of the Cabinet to hear Mr. Eden's report. Delegates who have returned from Geneva say they have never known of such anxiety, tension, nervousness and suspicion at Geneva. The belief is growing that Germany does not want to co-operate with Britain and Franco. Mr. Eden's teelings wero pointedly expressed in the House of Commons when he told an interrogator that he was not prepared again to ask Germany to reply to Britain's memorandum. TROOPS FOR DEFENCE COMMISSIONER'S REQUEST NOTE SENT TO POLAND British Wireless RUGBY, July 6 The "League's High Commissioner in Danzig, Mr. Sean Lester, has taken steps to ask Poland for troops for the defence of Danzig, or for the preservation of internal order. The Times says there is no doubt the German Government was well aware of the League Council's desire to reach an amicable settlement. It points out in reference to personal attacks in the German press on Mr. Eden, who is rapporteur on the Danzig questions, that British representatives on the League have held that office for many years, in fact since Sir Austen Chamberlain was Foreign Secretary. PESSIMISM IN PARIS FLOUTING OF COUNCIL ACT THOUGHT DELIBERATE PARIS, July 6 Diplomatic and press opinion on the j Danzig crisis in Paris is most pessimis- ! tic. It is believed that Herr Greiser was deliberately seeking to create an incident by flouting the League Council publicly. A member of the Council, after listening to Herr Greiser's diatribe, described it as the first fruits of the League's humiliation over Abyssinia. Figaro cryptically says that Britain has disquieting information regarding the intentions of the Reich.