THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY,
DECEMBER 13,
1934. *
BRITAIN STRIVES FOR ARMS PACT
SIMON DEFENDS PRIVATE
MANUFACTURERS
Britain is to make another at. templ, at Genova, to secure an international convention for the Fupervision and control of the traffic in arma,
This announcement was made by Mr. Baldwin in the House of Commona. He referred to the fact that in 1925 Britain ratified' a similar convention, but it was atlij waste paper, for it had never been ratified by any considerable number of nations.
rapidly from the "level of pence production of armaments to the maximum-of war production.
Only by that mcans was it possible, having regard to the limited output of the Stato factor- len, to bridge the gap between peace precautions and WAT de- mands. Even AO, the strain which modern war put on the pro- ductive powers of the nation was! stupendous, and without the in- greased contribution of private, "We are not in the least daunt-armament firms and shipyards it ed," he said. "We are going back to Geneva to take up this matter again, and we are determined to get an effective convention, We xhall do our utmost to see that other nations sign and satisfy, an wo do curealvan.
The Government had been con- sidering this question very care-" fully. Wus - Inst few days il had been in touch with the president of the Disarmament Conference (Mr. Arthur Fen- derson, and had expressed its viowa to him.
GOVERNMENT'S DUTY
"I am delighted," said Mr. Baldwin, "to find that our views Bre in very close accord, and we are going to Genevn in the hope, and the not unreasonable hope, that this time we may be able to accomplish something."
Mr. Baldwin, who won areaking in the debate on the Socialist motion which demanded State production of, armaments and
"Listle" General Goering, the "figure" on the left, greets an officer in the new. Prussian forestry service.
prohibition of Die private manu facture of arms, stated that these were anxious days in which 'we -lived.
would be impossible to meet such a demand.
The way to deal with armament manufacture was by regulation and control, which ought to be in necordance with an infernational trenty negotiated at Geneva, sign- ed and observed by all the States.
Britain had the most cognate and stringent system of controll- ing arma 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
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to the export of munitions of war, of the organisation to-day, although majority of the Stuhlhelm. That some time until Roehm's removal. and so far as he knew it was the in the days Immediately following undoubtedly arose from the fact, The Stahlhelm retains its uniform.. only Government that id. It the Nazis' seizure of power, clashes that the Stahlheim, with fifteen somewhat remodelled, with an open never subsidised a
a private firm for between the Stahlhelm and Storm years of intense patriotic siatory collar and lapels. They wear a producing arms,
never allowed Troops were frequent, as the organ- behind R. felt chagrined at being jawostika armband. the British Diplomatic and Con-isation, stoutly resisted Storm pushed into the background by Since conclusion of this reorgan-; Kular services abroad ... art
na Troop demands for their complete what they considered as upstarts,ination, the Young Stahlhelm, which travellers and canvassera for absorption,
young Brownshirts who never have consisted of approximately 400,000 armament firms.
been to the front and who, in youth, has been absorbed complete- large part, had joined, the Nazis ly by the Storm Troopers, so that only when victory appeared certain. the Stahlhelm now has no semi- That has all been changed sines military the June 30 parge,
activities: "de fence sports", technical training, terrain drill and study, and gymnastics have been taken over by the Storm Troops.
The Stahlhelm bousts of being
The Socialist motion War rc- jected by 299 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 Stahlheim was in danger of eelipse by the Storm Troops, under Rochm'a schemes of aggrandisement. Since then, quietly, it has been retrieving its own as the reduction plan of the Storm Troopa casts them out, and has been regaining some of its former prestige.
Labour
The recrudescense of
In spite of all the diflculties, however, and the dishearten- ing events of the last year, the Government auver lost sight of Minister Franz Seldie's organisa what must be the principal objecttion of front-line soldiers has been of
British Government to inconspicuous, scarcely noticed by maintain peace,
"While we are seeking peace, and I see no reason why that peace should not be maintained—I am no panic monger, по 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 fall in that."
the man on the street, but it has given birth to new marate within.; the ranks.
MILLION MEN
The Stahlheim пок numbers officially about one million men. It was formed in December, 1918. in Magdeburg, hy Captals Franz Stahlheim lealers emphasize that Seldte as an organisation of ex- they believed in Hitler and national service men pledged to fight Com-socialism long before the revolution munism and the tide of revolution brought in a wave of such elements,
Meatley Eili Deinborn, famous menina fan, ba'ls from Berlin. She makes long cruises in her
machine but always unaccompanied.
first
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, said:
following the War. efforts
Like the Nazijand that they resisted only the the "Our are directed toward party, there were only seven char-ellorts of the newcomers to force service for youth, which became organise labour 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 Steelhelmet was representative KEEP INDEPENDENCE good fellowship with the other of the nationalist elements in Ger-
one time I had more than 1,000 members of the national socialist many which meant the solid middle tween Hitler and the Stahlheim, from two to three months.
According to the agreement be- camps with voluntary service of movement." Mr. Seldte also em-jelassen and the older ruling classes, signed last March by Hitler, In- phasized the role which the Steel-with a sprinkling of monarchist, denburgh
In political fighting since its (Stahlhelm) helmets had played in supporting leanings. were
Kochm and Seldte, the Stahlhelm about 100 killed, approximately as patron foundation, the Stahlhelm has lost the new government when it took office, stating that the government
was made a special unit with- Col. Von Papen, in his ill-fated in the Storm Troops and its many as the Brownshirts.' found the Stahlhelm willing to co-Marburg speech of last. summer independence operate. "at a time when a tested when he attacked the Nazi anti- guaranteed. as such soldiery was needed to aid in the grumbling campaign and thereby is National gigantic task of rebuilding the some of the Nazi methods of Fighters state."
government, undoubtedly had the with the old This is by and large the altitude sympathy of an overwhelming parentheses,
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 pubile servants, soldiers, and sailors who 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 elsewhere to Germany.
One heard about the air menace. In the first eight months of this year the exports to Germany In- cluded 176 aeroplance, all ap proved by the United Stalta Government and listed as com mercial.
The rearming of Germany wont on through the nationals of Powers who were parties to the Treaty of Versailles against it. The arins mongers were clever enough to outwit any regulation. Evidence showed that military aeroplanes had been shipped piecemeal to North Sea ports and nasembled in Germany,
Sir John Simon, sakl 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.
review the existing system, It was a system which combined the nucleus of State production of necessary armaments with supplementary supply from arma-, ment firms and private shipyarda, though for the most part they wore engaged in peace-time producing things which were not munitions of warat all. ~BEGULATION AND CONTROL
The armament side of a private firm could not be maintained without foreign orders,
If we were plunged into, the calamity of war, then these arma- ment firms, these private ship. yards, owing to their previous organisation and their acquired aptitude, were able to switch over
NEA
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The Steelhelmet also has organi- Their new namej sations in many countries abroad, Socialiat Front where, however, they are in- League (Stahlhelm), dependent of the Nazis. There.
name.
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