GENEVA

Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 April 1935, Page 5

GENEVA

REGARDED ttclfl REJECTED BY GERMAN PR

Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, Wednesday. Newspapers unanimously reject tlxe Geneva resolutions, which, is regarded as a challenge. "If the League is so arrogant as to claim for itself ;the role of infallible judge over a beaten . .Germany, then Germany will find it most difficult to return to Geneva," says the "Volkischer Beobaehter.’’ "The time has passed when a great united nation will submit to an arbitrary interpretation of international treaties.’ ’

The Berlin correspondent of "The Times’’ states that while Germany is contemplating with scornful patience what she regards as frantic efforts at Geneva to handle the French'memorandum, comment is mostly confined to criticisms of the memorandum itself.

The Wilhelmstrasse suggests with relish that the best answer to France’s denial in the memorandum that the Versailles Treaty bound ' the Allied Powers to, disarm was delivered by M. Boncour himself when ho said in 1927 that the preamble of Part V. of the League Covenant concerned itself with the limitation of Germany’s armaments as a pre-requisite to general limitation, adding that the stipulation was not imposed on only one signatory, but was a moral arid legal obligation upon the others to undertake the general limitation of armaments.

Herr Lutze, leader of the Nazi Storm Troops, states that the new conscription law in no way eliminates the existence or purpose of Storm Troops. Nazi youth will pass through the Hitler Youth organisation, then serve in the Storm Troops, and afterwards be drafted to the labour service organisation, which will be followed by the conscription period, after which those vrlio have no vocation for combative life in the Nazi service will return to the Storm Troops. GERMAN REARMAMENT. CONDEMNED BY LEAGUE. (Received Thursday, 9.45 a.m.) \ GENEVA, Wcdnesda.y. The League Council adopted the resolution condemning German rearmament. Denmark abstained from voting.