GERMANY'S FOREIGN POLICY.
MATURE REFLECTIONS. JPy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. li.uUT* Telegram.. (Received, September 3, 1.45 p.m.) BERLIN, September 2. Addressing the Foreign Affairs Committee the. Foreign Minister, Dr von Simons, said that he had been urged to collaborate with tho Bolsheviks (T-gainst the Western Powers, and thus jreak the bonds imposed by the Treaty Versailles. After mature reflection le had rejected this course. In view of the defenceless state of the country Germany would immediately become tho theatre of war. Proposals were also made that Germany should make common cause with the Western Powers against Russia. This, however, was also impossible. No Power making war against Soviet Russia need count on Germany’s support. Statements that Germany would conclude a secret agreement with Poland and Russia were absolutely false. All the negotiations with Poland for the purpose of settling frontier questions had been public, but they were quite fruitless, and a considerable amount of ill-feeling had been generated. "
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 20042, 3 September 1920, Page 8
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