SAAR PARLIAMENT
ATTACK ON LEAGUE
DENIAL OF SOVEREIGNTY
(Received Dec. 29, 2.30 p.m.) BAABBRUOKEN, Dec. 28.
The final session of the Saar Parliament before the plebiscite was marked by a bitter attack on the League of Nations and a denial of its sovereignty by Herr Martin, the German Front leader, who Also declared that the Saar Commission was serving foreign interests rather than those of the Saarlanders.
lie denied animosity to foreign troops, who were only doing their duty, but complained that the British were using as a hospital a building devoted to cultural purposes. He demanded that the poliee should he forbidden to carry whips or sticks, which were provocative. He denounced a decree preventing the display of Hags, and declared that the Saarlanders were being tortured with humiliation, but would “give the traitors their receipt when they voted on January 13.” -As he concluded his speech members of the Gorman Front walked out amid the .jeers of their opponents.
A Community Deputy violently attacked the German Front, alleging that it had planned terrorism, including attacks on the commissioner, but he did not provide proof of the .'illegal ions.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18591, 29 December 1934, Page 15
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