Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1931, Page 15

BERLIN MAY FORCE MINORITIES 1SSUE League Council Monday Like- ly to Be Faced With Frontiers Dispute. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Oable to The Star. PARIS, France, January 17.—The Seague of Nations will open on Mon- day at Geneva what is widely regarded #s one of the most important Council | meetings in its history. | The expectation throughout Europe is | $hat Germany at this meeting, in con- | pection with the minorities dispute be- | tween Germany and Poland, intends formally to open its long-promised campaign in favor of revision of the peace treaty. The German people seem | to expect Foreign Minister Julius Curtius to speak out bravely Germany's ‘whole mind on this subject. It has been noted that in order to bave a freer hand Dr. Curtius some time ago signified that he would be un- able to take his present turn to pre- side at the OCouncil. Consequently, Arthur Henderson, British fore! min- er, has been named for this function his stead. It is even hinted from Berlin that if | Pr. Curtius fails of satisfaction, not | agal only will he himself be renlaced as foreign minister, but Germany may even withdraw from the League. Arms Parley Secondary. In these circumstances, discussion over the time, place and presidency of | the forthcoming general ‘disarmament | conference, which also forms part of the Council's agends, seems to take & secondary importance. i The German-Polish minorities dis- te, according to how it is handled, Hl- it is said, either/ncrease or weaken the 's prestige as s pacifying present. ‘Back of this dispute is the tense sit- wation which has been developing in Germany itself ever since the Rhine-| land evacuation last June and espe-| elally since Adolf Hitler’s success in| Conditions in the country’s famous prisons will be discussed by Capt. M. M. Barnard, superintendent of District penal institutions, in a talk before the Indiana Society of Washington Tues- | day night at 8:30 in the Willard Hotel. The entertainment program, arranged by Mrs. John Mock, vice president, will include songs by a quartet, bridge and dancing. Hoosiers visiting in Washing- ton have been invited to attend. Hugenberg's Nationalist Press has even demanded that the Polish should be declared void and held over again. Meanwhile, however, the tendency toward a Franco-British rapprochement has been continuing—continuing, it might almost be said, in exact ratio to the surge of the German clamor for revision. The Franco-British financial negotiations have been proceeding fa- | vorably, The naval negotiations among Prance, Italy and Great Britain will, it is thought, be resumed at Geneva. Foreign Minister Henderson of Great Britain and Foreign Minister Briand of France had a long talk in Paris Wednesday and took the same train Thursday for Geneva. Alliance Is Renewed. ‘The Polish-Rumanian defensive al- liance has just been renewed for an- other five years and the Polish foreign minister, August Zaleski, came to Paris this week to See M. Briand. On Monday, in Paris, an event oc- curred which, according to reports, the German elections. ~Under the leadership and pressure of the Nation- alist extremists the clamor for treaty | on has become, according to the | {mm ‘Times, unanimous. The Bruen-| ing government, while perhaps having | few illusions as to immediate po.s\b)ll-; ties, is said to have been tending more and more toward extremism in foreign policy in order to cut the ground from | under the feet of the Hitlerites. | Rival of Curtius Seen. | Within Dr. Curtius’ own Populist a candidate for his place seems | have arisen in Herr Dingeldey, who with strong Nat accents. “A wave of chauvinism and militar- ismn is sweeping over this country,” re-| | . ’ m“"@“’;d”:r"‘;h?“‘;,‘;‘n?"f;:“&;fi;;move by the allies was intended as & | - Serng MaChlneS $135 This newly designed comsole cabinet Berlin _correspondent _adds: “The German people are being led all day and every day and now even by | responsible politicians to expect some spontaneous and shattering national | outburst. | ‘Under the impetus of this psychology the German government within the last | few months pressed vigorously its views regarding revision of the Young lan and regarding disarmament. The League of Nations by Germany protest- ing against the treatment of the Ger- | man minority voters in these elections. | Another and even stronger note ema- | nated from the German organization in Polish Stlesia called the Volksbund. German Press Views. in the German Press Discussion showed clearly that this act was in- | merely to gain better treat- German minorities, but caused no little perturbation at the German embassy. The Conference of Ambassadors, the organization of the World War allies for overseeing treaty enforcement, met for the first time in more than a year. It met to consider a report by the allied military attaches in Berlin al- leging certain infractions or negligences by Germany in executing the disarma- ment clauses of the treaty of Versailles. ‘This report, with a few minor changes, was approved and forwarded to League of Nations, while an informa- tive copy was also sent to Washington. Norman Armour, counselor of the the meeting as American obsesver. 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Misgivings in Berlin. ‘These moves by the allies seem to have occasioned misgivings in Berlin. mon front, reinforced by the United States, which alse wants, it thinks, “to mux‘:: in the egg all tentatives at re- Germany, the PFrankfurter Zeitung thinks, is isolated and is running the risk of check and moral defeat. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung exclaims ‘hat the republic must have no illu- sions, for treaty revision will be long and will take years. It is impossible, the Vorwaerts as- serts, to change the frontiers without 8 war. It adds that Germany, dis- armed, cannot fight Poland, and that if it tried to, it would be breaking three pacts—the League covenant, the Lo- carno treaties and the Kellogg pact. German Socialists, this paper says, do not want war, “afd we consider as traitors to the German people and all humanity those who play with the idea of & new war.” Feeling of Persecution. don Telegram wired de:‘: - fluwmn- new: Wednesday : “Germany goes to Geneva in a par- ticularly nt fit of persecution ¢ | finding commission a LANSBURGH'S 7th, 8th and E Sts.—NAtional 9800. manis. Even Dr. Ourtius was infected | ¥ fim&hnww’fiw.ntw for s time temperature reached a level ominous for all Europe, particularly for his own country.” His ad have since, the corre- with sedatives,’ : It is believed here that M. Briand is :mtude nmruuu'mmxm entire Polish election te to 8 fact report before undertaking perhaps next Masy. ‘ (Copyright, 1981.) In & recent test in J. 8. Wright attained & speed H:anu an hour on & motor cycle, breaking the world record. LL Lansburgh’s merchandise ad- . vertised here on sale to- morrow and the next day unless otherwise specified. 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