JIBES AT BRITAIN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 12

JIBES AT BRITAIN

GERMANY AND ITALY FOR EIGN POI >ICY MO< ’K E 1) LONDON, October 24 A careful survey of the Italian and German Press reveals thaj there has been no substantial change in the attitude of Germany and Italy towards the Western democracies since the Munich agreement.

On the contrary, there is a surprising exhibition of studied insolence. Certainly, none of the newspapers are showing any desire to foster friendship with Great Britain. Instead, some journels are using abuse that would not be printed in any daily paper in England or France. At present the campaign directed against Britain is most vehement. British foreign policy and British imperialism are mocked.

The Volkischer Beobnchter, the chief official Nazi organ, devotes a six-column article to Palestine. I ends: “This little country has become a victim of the darkest chapter in democratic world policy. The world has been shown that, where her own interests are concerned, England possesses scruples neither about the vita rights of foreign peoples nor about her formally expressed engagements.”

The Italian semi-official spokesman, Signor Cayda, in the Voce d’ltalia, jeers about the unpleasant surprise of the “democratic verbal friends oi China” at the rapid occupation of Canton.

“The loss of Hong Kong's trade i: an economic result of rather less importance than the political outcome of Japan’s active policy in Southern China, which threatens French IndoChina and the British Indies,” he declares.

Italian and German journals attack British plans for rearmament, declaring that Great Britain is arming against .the totalitarian States,