GERMANS ACCEPT BORDER

Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1934, Page 7

GERMANS ACCEPT BORDER

AGREEMENT WITH POLAND BRITAIN WELCOMES PACT EASTERN LOCARNO THE AIM IMPROVED RELATIONSHIP British Wireless. Rugby, Jan. 27. The announcement that a pact of understanding had been reached between the German and Polish Governments was warmly received by the British Press. “The validity of the pact is limited to 10 years, but,” says the Times, “for that period at least there is voluntary acceptance by Germany of its eastern frontiers. An eastern Locarno, which has been so long the desideratum of European diplomacy, has been provisionally established. The two Governments decided to base their relations on the Kellogg Pact and to define more precisely the application of its principles to their own relationship.” The Times notes that since Herr Hitler came into power the German and Polish relations have steadily improved. It adds: “The treaty must mean a cessation of ‘revision’ propaganda.”

DISARMAMENT QUESTIONS ■BRITISH REVIEW EXPECTED PARLIAMENT’S REASSEMBLY British Wireless. Rugby, Jan. 27. Several questions bearing on the disarmament prospects are on the order paper of the House of Commons for Monday. They will probably be answered by Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary, and it is assumed, in accordance with the usual practice on the reassembly of Parliament he will give a brief review of events in foreign affairs which have occurred during the recess. With regard to. developments in the disarmament situation in particular, he may be able to indicate in a broad way what further steps the British Government proposes to take in the efforts to prepare the ground for the resumption of the work of the Disarmament Conference now that the full results are known of the supplementary and parallel measures through diplomatic channels which were pursued on the recommendation of the bureau of the conference. “ALL MOVING TOWARD WAR” VIEWS OF RUSSIAN LEADER “PERILOUS LIKELY CAUSE” By Telegraph—Press Assn.—-Copyright. Moscow, Jan. 28. In a five hours’ speech at the opening of the Communist Party congress, M. J. V. Stalin-, general secretary of the party, said that all countries were obviously moving towards war. The most dangerous possible cause of war was any effect to crush the Soviet Union, because the Russians would fight to the death, while the proletarians of the attacking Power would stage a revolution in the rear of the lines. “They’ll not feel like poking their pig’s snout into our Soviet garden,” he concluded.