DANZIG QUESTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1939, Page 5

DANZIG QUESTION

NOT PURELY GERMAN EFFECT OF BRITISH PREMIER'S SPEECH. VIEWS OF LONDON "TIMES.” By Telegraph—Press Association— -Copyright LONDON. July 12. "The Times” devotes another leading article to Mr Chamberlain’s statement on Danzig in the Commons on Monday and the reaction to it in the rest of the world. It says:—“The great merit of Mr Chamberlain s statement is that, for all its firmness it was scrupulously fair and placed the problem in its historic perspective. “In Warsaw the speech was welcomed for being sensible as well as for being strong. The Italian Press is editorially silent. Even in Germany the statement has not —in the first instance at any rate—produced quite the outburst of vituperation which has come to be almost the automatic response to British statesmen’s declaration of policy since- Herr Hitler’s Reichstag speech on March 28. “Constant 'reiteration of extreme national views has led to a state of affairs in Nazi Germany in which the individual almost renounced his intellectual maturity. Yet it is noticeable that German Press comment on Mr Chamberlain’s speech, though it generally asserts that the situation has been made worse by it, has so far on the whole been reasoned and varied.”

“The Times” emphasises that Danzig is not purely a German question but an international one, and could be settled easily by co-operation-.