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GERMANY'S MENACE TO PEACE

MR. CHURCHILL'S VIEWS OF SITUATION

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The fight which Polish stud- London, To-day. ents have been waging for some The debate in the House of Commons on the Defence White time against what they term to Paper was.continued yesterday. The Home Secretary, Sir John be the excessive lecture fees as Simon, emphasised that the normal system in which the Comwell as against the dispropor- mittee of Imperial Defence, of which the Prime Minister was tionate number of Jewish stud- Chairman, operated and of which the Chiefs of Staff Committee ents. assumed a novel aspect was one of its many sub-committees, was suited to normal times, yesterday, when 3,500 students but it became necessary to reconsider, strengthen and elaborate occupied the Warsaw technical it in the times through which we were passing.

| high school, declaring that they

As they approached a more difficult time of emergency - if would not leave the building unhappily they should approach war what was necessary was until their demands had been more continuous contact and more rapid co-operation than they acceded to.

got with the Committee of Imperial Defence on the one hand Guards have been posted by and the Cabinet on the other. If the proposals in the White Paper the students at all the entrances were approved by Parliament, a portion of the difficulties of thejand no one is permitted to urgent and important task would have to be most promptly dis- leave the building except Jen- charged. It would require most unremitting attention.

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Minister who would exercise high which will see to it that every- LONDON LEAGUE MEETING London:

at least It

understood and special authority as the de-jone is provided with is that one consideration leading to finite Chairman of the Committee one good meal a day. All food the proposal to hold the Locarno of Imperial Defence, with the very packages sent to the students and League meetings, in London important functions set out in the from home must be delivered to the central office and will be was that public opinion in Bri-White Paper.

pooled for general consumption. tain" has remained most calm

MR. CHURCHILL'S OPINIONS. Mr. Winston Churchill later) The Rector announced yester- throughout the crisis, which will

He said day morning that all lectures assist in the admittedly difficult took part in the debate.

that the scale on which foreign and laboratory work would be negotiations.

1922.

detachments,

cars

It is also considered that com-rearmament was proceeding was suspended until further notice.

Some time

police ago he Strong munication between London and prodigious. Berlin, if necessary, will be much made the statement that Germany equipped with armoured

or indirectly and fire hoses, have, cordoned easier than between Geneva and had spent directly Berlin. It will be the first meet-on armaments in 1935 upwards of off all the adjacent streets in He had had finan-order to prevent demonstrations ing of the League in London since 300.000,000.

disorders. Trans-Ocean cial statements as to how the and DEEP IMPRESSION money had been secretly found Service. Paris: The invitation to the among German franciers. In Locarno signatories to go to the three years since Herr Hitler ITALY UNAWARE OF BOMBING London is due largely to the very had been in power Germany had deep impression made on Mr. An-spent over £1,500,000,000—-money thony Eden and Lord Halifax by raised by internal borrowing-mons now flooding the fruit war the statements of M. Flandin and and her resources had been mort-kets of the country are suspected

FRANCE'S DEMAND

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ANOTHER COMMITTEE Millions

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Germany who were formerly un- Geneva that when the Committee It is also hinted that Mr. Eden employed have found employment of Thirteen meets to take note of is anxious to avoid the fate of in munitions manufacture or in the replies of Italy and Abyssinia | Sir Samuel Eoare after the Paris the armed forces. The financial to the appeal for peace negutia- situation has become such that tions the procedure adopted may conversation.

this cannot go on indefinitely. be to set up a Committee of three It is learned from authoritative "A terrible dilemma lies ahead members to study the matter and sources that the minimum France of the most peacefully-minded enter into contact with the par- could accept is that Germany Government in Germany. If they ties to the dispute.-British Wire- should sign a convention guaran-go on there is bankruptcy. Ifless Service. teed by Britain and Italy, by they stop there is tremendous un-ļ which Germany will undertake employment. The German Gov- not to construct fortifications in ernment will have to choose at the Rhineland zone.

no distant date between internal -France is expected to invoke and external catastrophe. the League resolution of April 4,| 1935, condemning the unilateral) repudiation of undertakings, and providing for economic and finan would be likely cial sanctions. France wishes to

told, is not yet understood to have been an in- count on the wholehearted sup-many. we are

Some say she is creased realisation of the serious port of the guarantor States, even ready for war.

of the German if it means going as far as mili-only half ready, yet we see that implications

already they are the only nation jaction, in which connection it is tary measures.-Reuter,

in Europe unafraid of. war. If reported that France insisted on what we have seen in the last the withdrawal, even a symbolic few days is the mood of a partial withdrawal, of the German troope. ly armed Germany, imagine what before negotiations.

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it will be when the colossal pre- The point especially stressed greatest reserve. It is only parations which are being made yesterday morning was that Bel- known that Sir George Clerk left are approaching their zenith, and xium's security was even more de- the meeting in order to telephone when the limits of international pendent on the demilitarised zone than France's, and Germany was to London, from which the con-borrowing are already in sight.

clusion is drawn here that the "Wars do not always wait till unable to accuse Belgium of vio discussions revealed considerable all combatants are ready. I fear,lation of the Locarno Pact, as she differences of opinion, an impres-lindeed, that there may be a cul-accused France in connection sion also made by the carefulminating point in the armaments with the Franco-Soviet Pack. wording of the official

DRAMATIC DEVELOPMENTS com- history of Europe. I cannot tell

Paris, later: There were drama- munique.

when it will be reached, but cer In diplomatic circles it is surtainly it will be reached in thetic developments in the evening, mised that Belgium will adopt the lifetime of the present Parlia-when, after the second meeting of same attitude as France, namely, ment. It may pass off. Let us never the Locarno Powers at the Quai not to enter into negotiations with accept the theory of inevitable d'Orsay from 7.40 to 3.12 pm, Germany until the demilitarised war, but neither let us blind our it was announced that it had been zone is evacuated again, though eyes to the remorseless march of decided that the League Council. neither France nor Belgium, it is events."-British Wireless Ser-would meet in London on Satur

day after the meeting of the stated, will formulate a direct device.

Locarno signatories in London to- mand for evacuation.

ENGLAND'S ACTION England, is expected, will advocate the formal establishment by the League of a breach of the Locamo Treaty and will prese for the early commencement of German negotiations with the Government. The latter ques-

M. SARRAUT'S REPLY morrow, and that Mr. Eden and

TO HITLER

Lord Halifax would fly to London to-day to discuss further matters with the British Government.

ITALY'S ATTITUDE Rome: While Italy is participat- (Continued from Page:1)

ing in the Paris discussions of

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Mr. Eden and ment in the press. Stampa, for French Government supporters, emanated from though, many voices are also to Lord Halifax, who submitted it example, says that Paris and Lon- be heard expressing the view to Mr. Stanley Baldwin, whose don are talking of the position of that IL Sarratt was somewhat approval was received just be-Italy as a guarantor of the Treaty hasty in "taking such an uncom-fore the conference at the Quai of Locarno, but-pretend to forget Printed and Published for the Proprietors, The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd, that Italy is mu. accused nation by DAVID CHRISTIAN WILSON, Manager, at 8A. Wyndham Street, promising attitude in his speech d'Orsay last evening.

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