EUROPE’S DANGER SPOT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17951, 1 December 1932, Page 11

EUROPE’S DANGER SPOT

POLAND’S POSITION A MENACE TO PEACE LONDON, Nov. 20. Poland’s future is the most 'precarious in Europe, save: the Berlin correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, who adds that only, -her alliance with France and German disarmament •stand between her and the destruction that is threatening her both within and without, and she is bound to act if the alliance is loosened or Germany rearms. Describing, after a tour of East Prussia, the dangers to peace, the correspondent explains that both the German and the Polish standpoints -arc .untenable. 'The Poles declare that the Versailles decisions are immutable, but nevertheless they 'simultaneously are modifying them in their oivn' favor. They arc systematically oppressing the German minority in the Polish corridor and are fostering their own port of Gdynia, thus involving the destruction of the trade of Danzig. Meanwhile, the Germans are militarising East Prussia, which, robbed of its natural markets and half -surrounded by protectionist Poland, would die without German subsidies. Nazi propaganda constantly magnifies the menace of a Polish invasion of East Prussia and emphasises the fact that Konigsbcrg’s defences are obsolete, owing to -the Versailles Treaty. Moreover, -the authorities have ordered whole towns and villages in East Prussia to undergo regular gas drill, the people rushing into shelters while German planes, purporting to be Polish, perform sham raids.