THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.”
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1934.
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BRITAIN STRIVES FOR ARMS PACT
SIMON DEFENDS PRIVATE
MANUFACTURERS
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Hrlinin is. to make another it- tempt, at Geneva, te seCHTE international convention for the supervision and control of the traffle in arms,
This announcement was made by Mr. Baldwin in the House of Commons. He referred to the fact that in 1925 Britain ratisled a similar convention, but It was still waste paper, for it had never been ratified by any considerable number of natione,
"We are not in the least daunt- ed," he said. "We are going back to Genova to take up this matter again, and we are determined to get an effective convention. We shall do our utmost to see that other nationв sign and satisfy, as we do ouracivos."
The Government had been con- idering this question very care fully, W Inst few daya it had been in touch with the prealdent of the Disarmament Conference (Mr. Arthur Hen- derson. and had expressed ita
lows to him.
Mr.
GOVERNMENT'S DUTY am delighted." Majd Baldwin, "to find that our views are in very close accord, and we are going to Geneva In the hope, and the not unreasonable hope, that this time we may be able to accomplish something."
Mr. Baldwin, who we
making
in the debate on the Socialist motion which demanded State
armaments production of
and
the
*Little" General Gouring. "figure" on the left. grants an officer in the new Prussian forestry service.
prohibition of the private manu- facture of arms, stated that these were anxious days in which we lived.
In spite of all the difficulties. however, and all the dishearten- ing events of the last year, the Government never lost sight of what must be the principal object of
British Government-to maintain peace.
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"While we are seeking peace, and I see no reason why that pence should not be maintained-1 am No
panic - monger, no scare monger, no war-monger-we must never forget that we have so mar- vellous a heritage to defend that In no circumstances must we fail In that,"
Major Attlee (Limehouse), in presenting the Socialist motion, maintained that the existence of armament firms was a standing temptation to the corruption all over the world of publle servants, soldiers, and sailors who were trying to do their duty.
SHIPMENTS TO GERMANY Then there was the rearming of Germany. There was a record of shipments going through Holland and claewhere, to Germany.
One beard about the air menace. In the first eight months of this year the exports tu Germany In- cluded 176 aeroplanes, all op proved by the United States Government and listed በ። com- mercial.
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The rearming of Germany went on through the nutionala Powera who were parties to the Treaty of Versailles against it. The arms mongers were elever enough to outwit may regulation. Evidence showed that military acroplanes had been shipped piecemeal to North Sen ports and nasembled in Germany.
'Sir John Simon wald they had to proceed on the basis. that this country must be provided with some defence expressed in the form of the possession and supply of munitions of war.
To form a judgment they must pasi in review the existing systern. it was a system which combined the nucleus of State production of necessary armaments with a supplementary supply from arma- ment firms and private shipyards, though for the most part they were engaged in peace-time in producing things which were not munitions of war at all.
REGULATION AND CONTROL
The armament aide of a private drm could not he maintained without foreign orders.
If we were plunged into the calamity of war, then these arma- ment firms, these private ship- yarda, owing to their previous organisation and their acquired aptitude, were able to switch over
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rapidly from the level of pesce production of armaments to the maximum of war production.
Only by that
It i possible, having regard to the malted output of the State factor- ies, to bridge the gap between pence precautions and war de- manda. Even но, the atraln which modern war put on the pro- ductive powers of the nation was stupendous, and, without the in- erensed contribution of private armament firms and shipyarda t would be impossible to meet auch n demand.
The way to deal, with armament manufacture was by regulation and control, which ought to be in accordance with an international treaty negotiated Geneva, sign- ed and observed by all the States.
Britain had the most cognate and stringent system of controll ing arms exports of all the coun- tries in the world. No consign- ment could leave the country without a licence to export.
The Government refused the benefit of its export credit system
canvassers
À Bavarian watch-maker bullt this clock of flowers and fruit.
to the export of munitions of war, of the organisation to-day, although majority of the Stahlhelm. That some time until Rochm's removal. and so far as he knew it was the in the days immédiately following undoubtedly arose from the fact The Stablhelm retains its uniform. only Government that did. It the Nazis' seizure of power, clashes that the Stahlhelm, with fifteen somewhat romodelled, with an open rever subsidised a private firm for between the Stahlhelm and Storm years of intense patriotic history collar and lapels. They wear producing arms. never allowed Troops were frequent, as the organ- behind it, felt chagrined at being swalika armband.
stoutly resisted Storm pushed into the background by the British Diplomatic and Con- lantion
net as Troop demands for their complete what they considered as upstarts, nular services abroad
young Brownshirts who never have and travellers
for absorption,
been to the front and who, in armament firms,
large part, had joined the Nazis The Stahlhelm now numbers only when victory appeared certain, officially, about one million men. That has all been changed since It was formed in December. 1918, the June 30 purers emphasize that in Magdeburg, by Captain Franz Stablhelm leaders Seldte as organisation of ex- they believed in Hitler and national service men pledged to flight Com-socialism long before the revalution munism and the tide of revolution (brought in a wave of such elements,
The Socialist motlan Wan re jected by 279 votes to 68.
Stahlhelm Strength Maintained
RIVALRY WITH STORM TROOPS
INTENSELY LOYAL
Berlin, Dec. 6.
The Stahlhelm is virtually the only organisation to emerge from the June 30 purge strengthened rather than weakened.
Prior to June 30, the Stahlhelm was in danger of eclipse by the
under
Rochm's Storm Troops, schemes of aggrandinement. Since then, quietly, it has been retrieving ita own as the reduction plan of the Storm Troops casta them out. and has been regaining some of its former prestige.
The recrudescense of Labour Minister Franz Selde'a" organisa- tion of front-line soldfura has been inconspicuous, scarcely noticed by the man on the street, but it has given birth to new morale within the ranks.
This does not in any way affect their loyalty to Hitler or to the Nazi regime. Minister Seldte, in a recent speech to the Stahlhelm in Stuttgart, naid:
MILLION MEN
Since conclusion of this reorgan- isation, the young Stahihelm, which consisted of approximately 400,000 youth, has been absorbed complote- ly by the Storm Troopers, so that the Stahlhelm now has no semi- military activities; "defence drill and study, and gymnastics sports", technfent training, terrain
have been taken over by the Storm Troops.
The Stahlhelmi boasts of being
Firmen Luti Leinborn, famour ·
- 1 from Berlin, She makes long cruises in her
machine but always unaccompanied.
Grat to
following the War. Like the Nazi and that they resisted only the the
organise labour "Our efforts are directed toward party, there were only seven char-efforts of the newcomers to force service for youth, which became seeing that the Stahlhelm keeps its ter members. Up to the time of them from a place which they had the basis of the present service right place, in order to fight for its absorption by the Nazi party, won in years of political struggle. with its 200,000 enrolment. At Germany's future in harmony and the Sleelhelmet was representative
KEEP INDEPENDENCE one time it had more than 1,000
camps with voluntary service of, from two to three months..
the new government when it took
good fellowship with the other of the nationalist elements la Ger- According to the agreement be- members of the national socialiat many which meant the solid middle tween Hitler and the Stahlhelm, movement." Mr. Seldte also em- classes and the elder ruling classes, signed last March by Hitler, Hin
In politlen! fighting since its phasized the role which the Steel with a sprinkling of monarchist denburgh (Stahlhelm)
patron helmets had played in supporting leanings.
Rochin und Seldte, the Stahlhelm foundation, the Stahlhelm has lost was made a special unit with about 300 killed, approximately as
many as, the Brownshirts. office, stating that the government Col. Von Papen, in his ill-fated in the Storm Troopa and
A& such
The Steelhelmet also has organi- found the Stahlhelm willing to co- Marburg speech of last summer independence
Their new namel satious in many countries abroad, operate, at a time when a tested when he attacked the Nazi anti- guaranteed.
Socialist National
Front where, however, they are in- soldiery was needed to aid in the grumbling campaign and thereby s gigantic task of rebuilding the some of the Nazi methods of Fighters' League (Stahlhelm), dependent of the Nazis. There
the U.S.- government, undoubtedly had the with the old
Home 6,000 in state."
retained in are This is by and large the attitude sympathy
overwhelming parentheses. Friction
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