“FAIRY TALE ARMY”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 41, 11 May 1927, Page 1

“FAIRY TALE ARMY”

GERMAN MILITARISM STRESEMANN’S STATEMENT FOREIGN POLICY UNALTERED By Cable.—Press Association.-—Copyright BERLIN, Monday. The Foreign Minister, Herr Stresemann, addressed a meeting of the People’s Party to-day. He said yesterday’s parade of tne “Steel Helmets” and similar demonstrations connected with the traditions of the old German Army, did not indicate a departure from the Government’s foreign policy. Such organisations, he said, were only a psychological reflex of the onesided disarmament policy. The suggestion that a secret, dormant army existed alongside the Reichswehr—an army which would awaken in a flash and hurl itself against Germany’s neighbours—was a mere fairy tale, worthy of Jules Verne. Herr Stresemann recalled the declaration of the Cabinet that it had renounced all idea of a policy of revenge. “My own name,” he said, "is so closely identified with Germany’s foreign policy that I could not remain Foreign Minister if it were altered.”—“Times.”