EUROPE'S PROBLEM

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18974, 26 March 1936, Page 6

EUROPE'S PROBLEM

COMMON SECURITY JAR GIVEN BY GERMANY LONDON PRESS COMMENT PRACTICAL PLAN NEEDED RETICENCE AT ROME (British Official Wireless.) Reed, 1.1. i p.m. RUGBY, March 25. The interim reply of the Gorman Government to the proposals of the other lour Locarno Powers states that, though compelled to reject the proposals in all points which affect its honour and equal rights, the German Government feels it must comply with the British Government's suggestions by presenting new proposals. The Daily Herald says the problem of the moment is to find an agreed ■basis for negotiating. "As the German Government finds thai which has boon put forward by the four Locarno Powers unacceptable it is up to it to produce, not grandiose schemes for the future, 'but practical proposals for the present," continues the Daily Herald. "The interim reply gives no indication that Herr Hitler has as yet even grasped the nature of the problem. If Jlerr Hitler wishes for a new deal, he must act so as to restore confidence. not so as to increase suspicion," The Daily .Mail says the terms of the Gorman reply offer no reason why negotiations should not proceed in the effort to reconcile the various points of view. ATTITUDE OF PRANCE The News-Chronicle declares that if France is assuming that Germany's refusal to accept the terms offered her are'without qualification, and that her own refusal to consider modifying them will assure her automatically of a military alliance with Great Britain, which has always been her secret aspiration, she is deceiving herself again.

The Yorkshire Post 'C.nn detect no sign in the German reply that either Heir Hitler or a well-dragooned Germany understands that the German action has shattered confidence in Europe, so that, no matter what prodigious pacts or treaties Herr Hitler may propose, they can procure no effect in promoting a. sense of security.

The Pome correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that Signor Mussolini thus far has neither approved nor disapproved of the London proposals, but political circles are comparing the lenient treatment given to Germany with the drastic action against Italy in a purely .colonial affair.

According to the Daily Herald's diplomatic correspondent, Signor Mussolini has privately' informed Prance that Italy's price of participating in any L'hineland security arrangement is the lifting of the League sanctions.