WILL TEMPORISE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20541, 16 February 1935, Page 1

WILL TEMPORISE.

British Attitude Towards Germany. FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS. United Press Assn.—By Electric Tel e graph—Copyright. (Received February 16, 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, February 15. Germany’s reply obviously evaded many issues. Britain has consistently t maintained that the Anglo-French pro- U posals cannot be partially accepted. ( Britain will not regard the reply as a ] rejection, but will temporise, resulting , in further negotiations. Germany’s at- , titude towards the air pact is admitted- < ly favourable, but the air pact cannot > be excluded from the proposals as a Germany Keen to Banish Danger of War. LONDON, February 15. The Berlin correspondent of the “ News-Chronicle ” says that a semiofficial statement declares that Germany’s reply to the Anglo-French proposals for a new armaments convention and a pact of mutual assistance against aerial aggression shows that Germany adopts a “ positive attitude ” to efforts to prevent an armaments race and banish all danger of war. The Government’s reply emphasises Germany's desire for peace, and pays a warm tribute to Great Britain’s endeavours to achieve a settlement of the differences between Germany and the other signatories of the Treaty of Versailles on the question of Germany’s rearmament. The German Minister for Foreign Affairs (Baron von Neurath) personally explained Germany’s views to the Ambassadors of Great Britain and France, and handed them an aide-memoire which, it is understood, is a brief document of only two typewritten pages, the contents of which, in French opinion, are favourable to the initiation of negotiations.