“ONE OF US MUST DIE”

Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1932, Page 7

“ONE OF US MUST DIE”

GERMAN HATRED OF FRANCE WHO TALK IN REICHSTAG INSULTING NAMES HURLED HOPES OF WAR EXPRESSED By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7.30 p.m. Berlin, Jan. 13. “Ono of us must die, and it is thou, dog of a Frenchman, because we must live,” declared Herr Spangemacher, National Socialist leader in the Reichstag, speaking at Oldenburg. Expressing the hope that German troops would soon be marching across the Rhine against France, their deadliest foe, he added insulting epithets regarding M. Briand and M. Laval. The British Cabinet meeting to-day will be devoted to the reparations and disarmament problems, states a London message. The report of Sir F. Ay. Leith-Ross, of the Treasury, on his conversations with the French Finance Ministry will be available. Mr. MacDonald yesterday discussed the reparations issue in the light of the Basle report with Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Sir John Simon and Mr. W. Runeiman. The article in Popolo d’ltalia is widely quoted, and is attributed in some quarters to Mussolini himself. It refers approvingly to the Hon. Alexander Shaw’s Liverpool speech. The writer states that he hopes the Lausanne conference will end by wiping the slate clean of the war’s tragic balance-sheet. The speech of the Hon. Alexander Shaw referred to concluded as follows; “The blunt truth is that if things go on as they are going the choice will simply be between repudiation and Chaos. May I suggest the healing message spoken long ago, ‘Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.’ These words teach us the wise and only practical economic policy.”