MANY QUESTIONS FOR MR EDEN

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20671, 9 March 1937, Page 7

MANY QUESTIONS FOR MR EDEN

SEQUEL TO NAZI OUTBURST

CONCERN FOR POSITION IN ABYSSINIA HOW WILL AMBASSADOR GREET KING? British Official Wireless (Received March 8, 5.5 p.m.), RUGBY, March 6. The long list of questions for answer by Mr Anthony Edon (Foreign Secretary) in the House of Commons on Monday include five with reference to Herr von Ribbentrop's recent speech at Leipzig. Several members are asking for information regarding the reported disorders at Addis Ababa, following an attempt on the life of General Graziani. Various aspects of the operation of the Non-Intervention agreement are also the subject of a number of questions. SEQUEL TO NAZI SALUTE WHAT WILL VON RIBBENTROP DO? United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph - Cop vrignt LONDON, March 7. The Berlin correspondent of “The Daily Telegraph” says: When Herr von Ribbentrop (German Ambassador to Britain) returns to London, and is received by the King on March 11. it will depend on his own choice whether he gives the Nazi salutation. There is widespread interest here regarding the course he will adopt. While the German Foreign Office is prepared to support the correctness of the Nazi greeting at all times and places, a hint was given to Herr von Ribbentrop that he would not be regarded as disloyal to Herr Hitler if the next time he enters the Royal presence he tempers zeal with discretion, and bows like other diplomats.

Several speakers taking part in the House of Commons debate on British foreign policy stressed the fact that Herr von Ribbentrop’s speech at Leipzig, giving the alternatives of a voluntary return of colonies or recovery “by Germany’s own strength,” was being interpreted as a threat to regain them by force. The offending remarks of the German Ambassador in London are as follow: "Hope is growing that appreciation abroad of the injustice done to Germany regarding the colonies will result in the mandatory Powers making the gesture we expect, and which Germany has a right to demand,” declared Herr von Ribbentrop, addressing the Nazi Economic Council at the Leipzig Fair, in a speech, which it is believed he made with the full understanding of Herr Hitler. In further remarks Herr von Ribbentrop declared that it was in the interests of all countries to remove the world-wide unrest created by this injustice. A remedy can be found either by solving the problem by returning Germany’s colonies, or by Germany’s own strength." He denied that Germany would use the colonies for strategic purposes.