THREAT OF WAR

Southland Times, Issue 21822, 27 September 1932, Page 5

THREAT OF WAR

.CRISIS FOR LEAGUE EUROPE AND THE FAR EAST PEACE INTERLOCKED (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, September 25. Mr H. Wickham Steed, writing in the Sunday Times from Geneva, says: “The League’s • severest crisis is at hand and with it the decision for peace or war. Though many think the German claim for equal armaments governs the position, it is recognized here that it is subordinate to the Far East conflict. If the latter is wisely handled even the eleventh hour German tactics will not avail to wreck either the League or the Disarmament Conference. Washington and Paris seem now to realize that peace in the Far East and Europe is interlocked. Britain, the United States and France can, if they will, avert a calamity. The supremacy of the law as a basis for the new world order for which the Great War was fought is now at stake, and Japan must be told to adhere to the League.” The well-known author Major-Gen-eral Yeats Brown, in an article in the Spectator, declares: “It is foolish for us to ignore the threat of war. Germany intends to have the Danzig corridor for which millions of Germans are ready to shed their blood. The Poles will not yield, and the best we can hope is that the war will be shortlived and will not spread.”