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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 23, 1937.
DALADIER'S VISIT TO ENGLAND
GENERAL STAFF UNDERSTANDING?: GERMAN COMMENT
London, To-day.
“M. Edouard Daladier, the French Minister
of Defence, has come to England to put the seal on certain arrangements," says the "Evening Stan- dard."
THESE ARRANGEMENTS, THE PAPER CONTINUES, HAD TO BE RE-EXAMINED IN VIEW OF THE NEW SITUA- TION CREATED BY THE RELEASE OF BELGIUM FROM HER OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE LOCARNO TREATY.
THE
"M. DALADIER'S VISIT IS BEING USED TO RE- STORE PERSONAL CONTACT BETWEEN MILITARY LEADERS OF FRANCE AND BRITAIN,” THE PAPER CONCLUDED.
Belgian
The London correspondent of and Britain are seeking the New York "Herald Tribune" agreement to some sort of under- says that the French and British standing between the General Staffs are anxious that Belgium should of the three countries. not conclude any bilateral non- Staff negotiations between these aggression pact with Germany, countries, he says, conflict with the such as Herr Hitler has offered neutrality stand her, which might leave out Belgium. either themselves or the League of Nations.
Ocean.
taken
up
by
COMMON ENEMY
The neutrality makes conver-
countries
The correspondent adds that Belgium may agree to play the sations with the General Staffs of role of "listening post.”- Trans- neighbouring
...quite superfluous.
Such conversations merely presuppose a common enemy, for otherwise no General Staff would give a foreign Power access to information regarding its military strength and war plans.
GERMAN COMMENT
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”)
Berlin, To-day. The forthcoming visit to Brussels Secretary, of the British Foreign the visit to London of the French Defence Minister and other con- tacts between the Governments of
From this the writer deduces that the Staff talks between France. Belgium and Britain point to OHE
Britain, France and Belgium, are thing and one thing only that Ger-
commented upon with extraordinary frankness by the German military writer Lieut.-Gen. von Netzsch în an article in "Berliner Tageblatt.” Ger- It is generally believed in many, the writer says, that France
•
Garter For The Premier?
many is considered their common enemy.
BELGIUM DISTRUSTFUL
Belgium, he says, has become distrustful of these Staff. talks, which she thinks are only of a temporary character and fill in the breaks caused by collapse of the Locarno Treaty, but which actually would bar the way for an indefinite under- period to any reasonable standing with Germany.
France and Britain still believe they can win Belgium 'over to their side.
however,
The important thing,
The King has decided personally would be to arrive at a proper un- to confer the Order of the Garter derstanding of the Belgian policy of on Mr. Stanley Baldwin when he neutrality, and to look upon her retires from the premiership after efforts to refrain from participating the Coronation.
in the Staff conversations with
This is the highest order the France and Britain as a соп- King can bestow .on > Minister.tribution to European appease- Unless, as is expected, Mr. Baldwin ment." -Trans-Ocean. goes to the House of Lords, will be the only commoner in the Order.
he
The decision to honour Mr. Bald- win in such fashion is a personal expression of thanks from the King
M. DALADIER IN LONDON
for the special services rendered Distinguished Gathering
by the Premier during the last few months.
The only
other commoner ever to hold the Order was the late Sir Austen Chamberlain, who received it for negotiating the Locarno Treaty.
At Luncheon
London, To-day- The Foreign Secretary entertain- ed at a lunch yesterday, the French Defence Minister, Mr. Daladier, who passed through London on his way to attend an Anglo-French Prof. W. I. Gerrard, O.B.E., M.D., gathering in Manchester, D.P.H., F.R.C.P. (Lond.) is giving The company included Mr. Nevil- a lecture before the Hong Kong le Chamberlain, Sir John Simon, University Medical Society on Wed-Mr. Winston Churchill, Major C. R. nesday, April 28, in the Union As-Attlee, Sir Robert sembly Room, at 5.30 p.m. He will Eric Phipps, the new British Am- speak on "Impressions of Medical bassador in Development in North China.”
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