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Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 155, 12 June 1936, Page 7

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J! Germany Mas Mot Yet j! Answered Questionnaire. | RHINELAND TROUBLE. Berlin, June 11. •j ! Hen* von Ribbentrop, prefacing a colj lection of diplomatic documents cover- | ; mg the history of the Locarno Treaty, j which will shortly be published, de~ i dares that Germany wishes nothing I more earnestly than the negotiation of a 1 new Locarno, but he emphasises that if ! s new treaty cannot be concluded with- , out a contribution by Germany to the ! solution of the Rhineiand question it j will take a long time in the making. "Germany will not permit further discussion over her regained sovereignty lin the Rhineiand," he adds. "Germany I is more interested in the future than in I the past. It is Germany's earnest desire , i to conclude a true and final peace with I her neighbours and build in the west j a new Locarno." i The inquiries addressed to Herr HitI ler's Government by the British Govj eminent with a view to clarifying the former's proposals for negotiations for j peace on a new basis were mentioned at question time in the House of Commons yesterday. The Foreign Secretary said that no reply had yet been re- | ceived to a communication made by 1 the British Ambassador in Berlin on May 6. "On May 23 the British Ambassador j was instructed to remind the German I Government of the desire of His Ma- I jetty's Government to' receive a reply," j said Mr. Eden. "Sir Eric Phipps was | further asked to emphasise that His i | Majesty's Government was anxious to } I elucidate as scon as possible points i which were not clear in the German [ Government's memoranda of March 17, j ! 26 and 31 and that the purpose of His I Majesty's Government was to secure j ! that general negotiations should be j I opened for the conclusion of western I | and eastern European security arrange- j I ments and -the return of Germany to | the League with a view to a permanent j ' solution of the continuing situation | j created by the German Government's : action on March 7. i

I "In reply it was intimated to Sir Eric Phipps by the German Government on May 26 that no reply would be forthcoming until after the formation of the new French Government.''