GERMANY AND LOCARNO PACT Viewpoint On Relations With France Explained
Mrs. Amelia Earheart Putnam, whose round the world flight was delayed yesterday by a violent Stormi
SABRE RATTLERS
"The Men Who Did Not Fight"
Gen. Goering, the German Air Minister, told ex-Service men of 14 nations, including Great Britain, who were meeting in Berlin in their first international confer- ence, that a desire for peace was
felt by all who had fought in the
last war.
Speaking in the great hall of the Air Ministry, he said:
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BERLIN, TO-DAY.
ILLEGITIMATE SON'S CLAIM
Upheld By Vienna Court
Vienna, To-day. Franz Ferdinand Hahn, a paralys-
THE GERMAN AND ITALIAN REPLIES TO THE BRITISH MEMORANDUM ON THE PRO-
ed illegitimate son of the Archduke POSED WESTERN PACT WERE BELIEVED Franz Ferdinand, whose assassina- HERE TO BE AN EXPRESSION OF LOYALTY tion at Sarajevo in 1914 started the Great War, has just won a law suit TO LOCARNO AND THE MANNER IN WHICH there. THEY HAVE BEEN RECEIVED IN PARIS AND He brought the action against LONDON HAS CAUSED SOME ASTONISH-Duke Maximilien von Hohenberg, the legitimate son of Archduke MENT
Franz Ferdinand.
“BOTH CAPITALS HAVE MADE NO ATTEMPT TO DIS The invalid petitioner had GUISE THEIR DISSATISFACTION!” IS THE OBSERVATION claimed to be entitled to main- MADE IN THE GERMAN PRESS, WHICH SEIZES THE OPPOR-tena and he was able to show. TUNITY TO EXPOUND GERMANY'S DIPLOMATIC AIMS WITH that in 1902 the Archduke Franz REFERENCE TO A WESTERN PACT.
Ferdinand had signed a Deed ad- mitting paternity.
One of the interpretations made in Paris, says the "Ber liner Tageblatt," is that Ger many apparently wants to elim- inate the automatic aspect of the Franco-Soviet Pact.
"This is quite correct," says the paper, "for some guarantees in this direction are not only urgently
LADIES WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP-
The Chess Federation Of Aus- tria announces that from June 26 to July 15, 1937, the Ladies' World Chess Championship is scheduled to take place between the present
The court granted him a monthly sum of 320: Austrian schillings for benance, payable by the Duke. rans-Ocean.
CINC. ARRIVES
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needed but they for the main pretitle holder, Miss Vera Menschik flag of Admiral Sir Charles J. C. HMS Cumberland, flying the requisite for a return to renuncia- tion of recourse to war on the
(London) and
her challenger, Little, arrived in the Colony this Fraulein Sonia Graf, (Munchen). morning on the completion of Rhine.
The tournament will be contested her Southern cruise. The
WHAT GOOD?
in the Grand Hotel Panhans, Sem-Admiral's yacht Falmouth is ex-
pected in this afternoon.
"What good would be a Franco-mering, Austria. German agreement to renounce war if there always remains the pos- sibility of it being violated at will at any desired time by the opera- tion of certain warlike pacts?**
The German “Diplomatic and Political Correspondence" points] out that France violated the Lo carno Treaty prior to German action on March 7 last year by con- cluding the pact with Russia.
It was this that caused Belgium to alter her political outlook.
BRITAIN'S CLAIM
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As against this, Germany and "It was a heavy loss for the Italy have remained steadfast in whole of mankind that the best of their attitude throughout, the the younger generation of all paper: says, and want to see the peoples was destroyed in these guiding principles of the old bloody battles. I believe that the Locarno incorporated in any new world war was the final test to arrangement namely, safeguarding show that the nations must never of the Rhine frontier, allow themselves again to face France and Germany pledge them each other in such a struggle.-
selves to renounce any warlike "It was the last warning of des- action, with Britain and Italy as tiny not to permit Western culture guarantors of this arrangement. to be destroyed.
“Germany sees herself bound to; "It is too often said that soldiers decline commitments of a different are the chief representatives of a and more far-reaching nature, and war party. I believe, my com-will-continue to reject complicat- rades, that most sabre-rattling is ed Geneya ideology." done by those who have never car-
ried one.
"It is my passionate and heart- felt wish,” he concluded, “that
this congress may help to find the basis of a true peace with and equality of rights for all sides.
am happy that this congress
ing place in the new
which desires peace just as
as the other peoples.
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