LEAGUE OF RATIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22721, 6 November 1935, Page 9

LEAGUE OF RATIONS

MODIFYING THE STRUCTURE BRINGING GERMANY BACK (United. Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) GENEVA, November 4. Reports from. London of tentative British plans to re-form the League by transferring its more important functions to a smaller and more elastic body composed of the Great Powers, are discounted in Geneva. There has been, however, some discussion regarding modifying the structure of the League with the object of bringing Germany back and establishing a now security system based on French, German, and British co-opera-tion. Supporters of this system, including Dr Schacht, emphasise that it is essential that France should not ratify an agreement with the Soviet, as the system envisages the ultimate recognition of Germany's rights to expand castwards.

FRANCE'S "SENSELESS IDEA-

BERLIN, November 4. The hints of the desirability for improvement in Franco-German relations are cautiously examined in the German press, which professes not to know tho official reaction to what is proposed at Geneva. General Goering, in a speech in the Saar, asked would the French finally abandon, the senseless idea that Germany was lying in wait to fall upon France? These two peoples in the Great War had learned to respect each other. There was no need to test their strength with another passage of arms. Germany would rather compete with France in peaceful work, in which rearmed Germany could make a definite contribution, because a defenceless country was always a great temptation to its neighbours. WARNING TO M. LAVAL LONDON, November 4. M. Heniot, speaking at Lyons, warned M. Laval that the Left supporters would not tolerate an understanding with Germany permitting expansion eastwards at the expense of Russia.