‘AN ECONOMIC LANDSLIDE'

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1930, Page 7

‘AN ECONOMIC LANDSLIDE'

DIFFICULTIES IN GERMANY ATTITUDE TO YOUNG PLAN i NO GUARANTEE OF, SUCCESS' ONE-SIDED DISARMAMENT ’ IBy Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Berlin, Nov. 20. •“We shall not tear up the Young plan, ■but we have never given guarantee that the plan can'be carried out,” declared. Dr, Curtius, addressing the Reich Coun“Sinee the Hague conference a worldwide economic landslide has occurred. Other Governments have not carried out their promise of co-operation with Ger r many in fulfilling the Young plan. The Government is responsible for (seeing that the German nation ifc not deprived of its social and mpral foundations by intolerable burdensJh 'Referring to disarmament and the recent speech by M. Tardieu, Dr; Curt.’US said.- “If to-day, twelve years after peace was declared, a demand is made for one-sided disarmament, Germany shall remain armed. One-sided disarmament would have consequences whicn cannot be foreseen. It would seriously endanger the existence of nations and all the other guarantees of peace.” Germany, he said, had rejected a policy of adventure in foreign affairs, 'but the Germans did not consider it possible docilely to acquiesce in the present position of affairs under the-Peace Treaty, especially in the East. It ,s 'was not unchangeable treaties 'but ’ tlie li'es of nations which determined the future. Germany needed peace and!? co-operation from France.