RFARMAMENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 204, 29 August 1936, Page 9

RFARMAMENT

3ny IX/InoF Continue PARIS DISCUSSIONS SCHACHT GIVES REASONS REMEDIES SUGGESTED NEGATIVE FRENCH REPLY [By Telegraph—Frees Association—Copyright) Received Aug. 28, 10.26 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 28. | The Paris correspondent of i the Tinies says that Dr. , Schacht, during discussions with the French Ministers, ; argued that for financial, I economic and military reasons Germany had been compelled to continue her process of rearmament. The remedies he suggested Here:— (1) Financial relief by a “currency alignment” and development of trade. (2) The return of colonies, thus opening up fresh markets and enabling Germany to obtain supplies of raw materials. (3; Renunciation of the Franco-Russia Pact, otherwise the present German policy and the dangers it entailed would I continue. The French answer was that re- I garding currency alignment ami i the return of colonies, others must first be consulted, while regarding I the Franco-Russian Pact, France would not renounce it nor would I she accept any arrangement d.- i tiding Europe into separate or watertight compartments. Herr Hitler’s military service decree had strengthened, not weakened, that resolve. Hitler’s Assurance. i The Manchester Guardian s j Paris correspondent says that ■ ’ there seems to be no longer a J mystery about Dr. Schacht's j' visit. He arrived with a i verbal message from Herr Hitler to the effect that j’ France need not be alarmed about German rearmament, j, which was “not directed against her.’’ Dr. Schacht at the same | time hinted that the Franco- ! Soviet Pact was an obstacle to 11 the harmonious progress of Js Franco-German relations. ;, In a statement in Le Soir. thatij Dr. Schacht referred to the cor-b dial atmosphere of his confer-11 cnee and said that the ice had i been broken. I An authoritativ. spokesman, I however, said that Dr. Schacht L appeared to be in too great a i hurry to assume that France had j 1 already swallowed Herr Hitlers army <J< eri c,