APPEAL TO THE LEAGUE.

Wairarapa Age, 22 March 1935, Page 5

APPEAL TO THE LEAGUE.

SOME BRITISH OPINIONS. PLAIN TALK BY LONDON “TIMES.” (Received Thursday, 10.20 p.m.) LONDON, March 21. With reference to Germany's reported desire to resume her place in the League of Nations, the “Daily Telegraph’s’’ diplomatic correspondent says the idea that a country can withdraw from the League, violate its obligations, and then resume its place as though nothing had happened is nowhere held admissable. Herr Hitler will certainly be advised that if Germany sincerely desires to co-operate in the work of the League, she should first show willingness to negotiate a general settlement on the basis of the London Declaration. “The Times” says: “It is agreed that the general object of European policy is to bring Germany back to the League, but nothing eould be better calculated to prevent her return than to indict her before the Council. Moreover, the Council can do no more than declare what everybody knows —that Germany has violated the Treaty of Versailles. “The real question, is whether Germany in the last fifteen years has had a square deal and whether the treaty itself is in all respects a fair one. .That question cannot .be . answered. by any arbitration .court in the .world. .The only result of arraigning Germany must be to give the League in German eyes the appearance more than ever of all anti-German association and to render more difficult an eventual approach thereto by Herr Hitler.” “The Times” Rome correspondent says that Italy, it is officially stated, “sees no reason for opposing the French appeal to the League or the French Note to Berlin,” but it is not yet known whether Italy will also send a Note of protest. AUt DEFENCES. HEAVY SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE TN FRANCE. (Received Thursday, 10.20 p.m.) PARIS, March 20. The Government has decided to spend £22,860,000 or air defences supplementary to the amount provided in the Budget in November.