BLENDING IDEAS

Taranaki Daily News, 13 April 1935, Page 7

BLENDING IDEAS

HOPE FOR AGREEMENT

BRITISH DETERMINATION

ARMAMENT SETTLEMENT

SUPERVISION BY LEAGUE

ATTITUDE TO GERMANY By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 10 p.m. London, April 12. The Stresa correspondent opened propitiously, says a diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. Mr. MacDonald’s outline of the British views appears to have commanded a large measure of approval. Signor Mussolini kept his mind free from preconceived ideas, while the French Ministers were obviously pleased that Britain was prepared to identify herself with firm action through the League of Nations for the preservation of European peace. There is no indication that the three Powers will not be able to blend their ideas in a common conclusion.

The Stresa correspondent of the Times says that according to authoritative information Mr. MacDonald’s speech made the British Government’s position dear —that no country must assume in the interests of its own policy that France, Italy and Britain can be divided in any policy which can strengthen and secure the peace of Europe. The 1 Frankfort correspondent of the Times says that Dr. Goebbels, addressing a Nazi rally, declared that Germany was tackling foreign problems not with a rattling sabre but with sober realism through the mouth of one man —Herr Hitler. Germany would join, no international committee unless it was treated as a first-rate nation. If the world disarmed Germany would do likewise.

The Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent at Stresa says Mr. MacDonald announced the British Government’s determination to continue efforts to achieve an armaments agreement under League supervision. He emphasised the British view that Germany ’ must not be “let off” as though no offence had been committed, but that this should not exclude efforts to obtain Germany’s cooperation in building up the peace organisation in Europe. The delegations spent much time in the afternoon discussing the draft French resolution on the subject of German rearmament, recognising that it was essential to obtain a unanimous vote on the subject. The correspondent understands that the French are anxious to secure approval for inclusion in the resolution of words to the effect that in the event of. a further breach of the Versailles Treaty economic and financial sanctions will be applied to Germany forthwith.