EUROPE’S PERIL

Taranaki Daily News, 12 June 1931, Page 7

EUROPE’S PERIL

“GERMANY, NOT FRANCE”

DISTRESS-MADDENED NATION

PROFESSOR’S PREDICTIONS

SENSE OF INJUSTICE FELT

DISARMAMENT DEMANDED By Tslesrraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Rcc. 10 p.m. London, June 11. A sensational speech suggesting the danger to European peace was not France, but Germany, was delivered by Dr. Edward Lyttelton, Rector of Sidestrand, at the Norwich diocesan conference. Dr. Lyttelton read a letter- from a German professor stating the country was rhadflened by the prevailing distress and smarting under a sense of injustice because the Allies had not fulfilled the Versailles promises to disarm. As a result the German Government was considering action; unless it obtained an assurance that the conference on disarmament in February would do something adequate Germany would leave the League of Nations and rearm the country as quickly as possible. The professor added, that Germany was already negotiating an alliance with Russia. Dr. Lyttelton concluded that those two Powers could defy the world, Germany thus repudiating its debts and putting itself on a parity with other nations as regards armaments. DEBATE WOULD NOT BE HEIIPFUL QUESTIONS IN HOUSE OF COMMONS British Official Wireless. Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, June 10. Answering a question in the House of Commons regarding his discussions at Chequers with the German Ministers, the Prime Minister said, regarding the scope of the discussions, that he could not add anything to the communique. H 6 added that the German Chancellor had invited him and the Foreign Secretary to pay a return visit to Berlin. The Government had great pleasure in accepting the invitation but no date had yet been fixed. In reply to a supplementary question Mr. MacDonald said he did not think a debate bn the present position in relation to reparations and inter-Allied debts' would be helpful.