TOPICS OF THE DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20853, 11 July 1939, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY

Call for Calm and Reason “With calm and reason on both sides,” says the Times, “the question of Danzig is essentially one which is capable of solution by negotiation. But it would be impossible to prevent a general conflagration from following the outbreak of a war between Poland and Germany. There is an uneasy feeling in Poland—amounting indeed almost to a convjction—that, once Germany were definitely installed in Danzig, she would use her position there to exercise economic and political pressure. It would be so easy to fortify the place and dominate the neighbouring harbour of Gdynia which Poland has built for herself on Polish soil. And a fortified Danzig, together with the newly acquired port of Memel, would go a long way toward making Germany supreme in the Baltic. Without any doubt the sympathies and the interests of the smaller Baltic States are united with those of the Polish people in their determination to maintain an international status for Lhe Free City.”