BLAME FOR THE WAR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16458, 17 June 1924, Page 9

BLAME FOR THE WAR.

GERMAN DISCLAIMER. LONDON, June 6.—One of the reasons why Dr. Mara’s recent negotiations with the German Nationalists failed was because he refused to demand from the Allies tailed la lkm of article 232 of the Peace Treaty, which deals with Germany’s responsibility for the war. _ This illuminating disclosure occurred in a speech delivered in the Reichstag yesterday by Count. Westorp, the Nationalist lender, who, says the correspondent, of the Times at Berlin, re-stated the Nationalist dairies to- be represented' in the Cabinet on the ground that they - were the largest party in, the Reichstag. Dr. Marx said that he entirely agreed with tlio view that Germany was not responsible for the war, but pointed cut that the present was not a suitable occasion for taking up the question, which had far belter be left to future historians to decide. He declared that he had done his best to secure co-operation of the Nationalists, .bu.t, his condition was that there must be no change in foreign policy, and their assent was not forthcoming. Tile Socialist leader, Herr Lobe, said that, it was just as well that the negotiations with the Nationalists broke down, because if the Nationalists, had accepted the experts’ report, it would have aroused a, degree of mistrust abroad that, could never have been dispelled.