PRICE OF PEACE IN EUROPE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19451, 28 March 1933, Page 7

PRICE OF PEACE IN EUROPE

SECURITY OF POLAND ESSENTIAL

GERMANY’S BOLD POLICY OF AGGRESSION trnltnd Press Association—By Electric •Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 27, 8.6 p.m.) PARIS, March 26. “Herr Hitler’s Germany seeks not the* recovery of Danzig, but the disarmament of Poland,” M. Paderewski told the newspaper “Le Soil.” “After Danzig and the Polish Corridor, Germany will want Silesia, Alsace and Austria. There will not be peace in Europe without a strong and living Poland.” FRENCH LEADER’S WARNING. IMPORTANCE OF CONFERENCE AT GENEVA. United Press Association By Electric Teles. aiJh— Copyright (Received March 27, 7.0 p.m.) PARIS. March 27. M. Boncour, addressing the Friends of Peace League, said: —“Although the present difficulties are not insoluble, or that peace or war is in the balance, It is essential that the Disarmament Conference should proceed in the present month, as failure would set In motion an armaments race which would lead to catastrophe, but pessimism is premature.” Referring to the Economic Conference, M. Boncour declared that those nations which do not see the necessity for the interdependence of all, would perish.

ITALY’S PLAN EXAMINED. VIRTUES OF PROPOSALS DISCUSSED. United press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, March 26. While there is still some obscurity regarding Signor Mussolini’s FourPower Plan, political correspondents are able to throw some light on it. “The Observer” says the plan proposes a European undertaking not to resort to war for a defined period, so that the respite thus gained would be utilised to secure an agreed measure of revision of the Versailles Treaty and an agreed measure of armament reduction put Into effect. It is suggested that agreement would be first formally registered as a Four-Power Treaty, after which it would go to Geneva where the European Powers generally would be invited to subscribe. It is feared In some quarters, particularly in France, that this procedure would weaken Geneva’s prestige. The answer is that unless the four Powers are agreed the plan is doomed.