TEUTON FIRMNESS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 265, 6 October 1933, Page 7

TEUTON FIRMNESS

DEFENSIVE WEAPON REQUIREMENTS.

DEADLOCK AT GENEVA

VON NEURATH NOT RETURNING

(Unßed Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received October 6, 8.10 a.m. PARIS, Oct. 5.

The Sob- publishes a frank interview with General Goering, the Chief of Police in Germany, from Berlin. “As a soldier whose business for years lias teen to wage war, I say we do not want war. Franco and Germany have never been able, and never will bo able, to reciprocally wipe out one another,” he said. Recalling the sufferings of the Great War, he said: “Wliat people could be submitted to such a test again unless the whole of the people revolted against the invasion of their territory ? We have no ideas of revenge. However, Germany must have defensive weapons. Herr Hitler has pluck enough to frankly discuss the miserable Franco-German quarrels. Has France anyone willing to meet him?”

The Australian Press Association representative at Geneva learns from'an authoritative German source that the four Power disarmament negotiations have practically deadlocked. Baron von Ncurath is not returning to Geneva, having decided that the An-glo-Franco-Italian proposals are unacceptable, even as a basis for discussion.

A PEACEFUL SOLUTION. INTERNATIONAL SITUATION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Oct. 4. Speaking at a city luncheon, the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, urged that too gloomy a view of the international situation should not be taken. There were qualities in the British policy which should contribute materially to a peaceful solution. In disarmament Britain had set an example and had led the way, reducing her own forces to a point which certainly could not justify further reduction, but would call for international treatment and agreement if we were to feel secure.

Sir John Simon and Captain R. A. Eden, Under-Secretarv for Foreign Affairs, further discussed the disarmament position with the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street to-day. Mr Arthur Henderson, chairman of the Disarmament Conference, has officially convoked the Bureau of tlie Disarmament Conference for October 9.