DANGEROUS DAYS IN EUROPE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20090, 23 April 1935, Page 7

DANGEROUS DAYS IN EUROPE

SEQUEL TO GENEVA RESOLUTION GERMAN DEFIANCE OF GREAT POWERS United Press Association—Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received April 22, 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 22. “The Daily Mail’s” special correspondent (Mr Ward Price) writing from Berlin, says: “Europe has reached a dangerous deadlock. The statesmen of all countries are looking backwards instead of forward and are conserving the old international relations, instead of constructing new ones. The only Power benefiting from the activities of the past ten days is Russia, whose main business, under M. Litvinoff’s influence, is the registration of new military alliances. This zeal dates only from the revival of Germany’s national spirit under Herr Hitler. All other countries are worse off. The Stresa negotiations have not reduced armaments by a single rifle, but have merely put back the clock on an understanding between Germany and the Western Powers, without which peace is impossible. The Germans regard the Geneva vote as an insult and a humiliation, putting the possibility of Germany’s return to the League of Nations out of sight, and preventing her participation in the Rome Conference in May, regarding Austria’s independence. A worse sequel is the making of Germany bitter against Britain. Highly placed Germans say that when they talked with Sir John Simon they understood the entire past had been blotted out to enable Britain and Germany to work together on the basis of complete equality to secure peace in Europe. The “Daily Mail” asks whether the British support of the resolution of censure passed by the League of Nations Council on Germany, for rearming was not unparallelled folly and adds: Britain has no quarrel with Germany and cannot understand the discrimination against her, as if she alone has departed from the terms of the Versailles Treaty. England, France and Italy must bear the brunt of the onslaught in the event of war. Germany, who in 1914 until 1918 nearly defeated the whole world, will rely on her air arm in the next war. This supreme consideration should govern British counsels."