CONCERN AT GENEVA.

Wairarapa Age, 7 July 1936, Page 5

CONCERN AT GENEVA.

ANXIETY OVER GREISER’S AGGRESSIVENESS. DECISIVE CHOICE FACING LEAGUE. ASSERTION OF AUTHORITY OR GERMAN COUP. (Received Monday, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 5. The “Daily Telegraph’s” diplomatic correspondent says the aggressiveness of Herr Greiser, Nazi President of the Danzig Senate, has increased anxiety and apprehension at Geneva and reduced the hope that the Locarno Powers will be able to reach a general European settlement with Germany.. The “Daily Herald,” in an editorial, expresses the opinion that before the year is out the League will be faced with the choice of asserting its authority in Danzig or watching Herr Hitlej incorporating Danzig in Germany! “The Times” Berlin correspondent says there is every sign of enjoyment at the vicarious German kick Herr Greiser delivered to the League at its own tribunal. It is likely to go somewhat to German heads, as doubtless it was intended to. Danzig’s closer association with Germany seems as inevitable as was the reoccupation of the Rhineland. Moreover Herr Greiser’s appeal in the name of the German people facilitates Herr Hitler’s reply to Britain, as he can say that Germans outside Germany have proclaimed him as their leader, which he is unable to repudiate. The “News-Chronicle’s” Danzig correspondent says Mr. Sean Lester’s house is closely guarded. The city is passing through anxious moments and fears are intensified owing to the fact that all German soldiers holidaying in the city have been recalled by telegraph to East Prussia and that large Polish contingents are in the neighbourhood of the frontier. The pro-Ger-man press is already declaring that Danzig is no more a vassal of the League, but a sovereign State. Nevertheless non-Nazis number a quarter of a million out of 400,000. If a free vote were taken, it is possible that the Nazis would obtain only thirty per cent, of the votes. WARNING TO POLAND. NAZI PRESIDENT CRITICISED IN WARSAW. (Received Monday, 7.30 p.m.) WARSAW, July 5. The newspapers criticise Herr Greiser’s speech and declare that it is a warning to Poland. EMPEROR DEPARTS. GIVEN CORDIAL SEND-OFF FROM GENEVA. (Received Monday, 7.30 p.m.) GENEVA, July 5. The Emperor Haile Selassie departed for London. He was given a cordial send-off. THE ASSEMBLY. DATE OF NEXT SESSION. RUGBY, July 4. The General Committee of the League Assembly recommends that the seventeenth session of the Assembly should be fixed for September 21, not September 7, so as to give additional time for study of any hew proposals.— (British Official Wireless.)