BRITAIN AND FRANCE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 55, Issue 3938, 11 August 1937, Page 5

BRITAIN AND FRANCE

BERLIN’S HOPE TO SEPARATE. Berlin newspapers deplore the fact that the axis of British policy is more than ever an alliance with France. The principal policy of Herr Hitler in the west has been to separate Great Britain and France in order to face the latter single-handed. From the beginning the Nazi Government tried its utmost to win sympathy of England and it appeared to be well on the way to doing it. It was British policy which undermined and foiled the attempt of France in 1933-34 to bring about a new encirclement of Germany. It was British policy which induced France to acquiesce passively in the successive German violations of the Peace Treaty. It was British finance which enabled Germany to tide over the exacting period of abnormal raw material imports needed for rapid rearmament and the campaign against unemployment. But she has failed in her real objective of separating England from France. Germany has been compelled to realise that Great Britain cannot be shaken in her determination not to choose between, but to combine, an understanding with Germany and co-operation with France.