Berlin, Jan, 2.
'That the revision idea is making' discernible headway is the contention of the majority of the German newspapers in their reviews and analysea of the expressions of inter~ national editorial opinion on the. ecension of the New Year. Only Reance and her satellites are, it is} declared, still holding out strenuously against any revision whatever, with more or less open declarations that the status quo of Europe must Tomain sacrosanct. However, confidence is being expressed ' that during the new year the revision, movement will reach full strength and that the united efforts of those wave station at Rome and relayed by the American Radio Corporation over a hook-up of Ameri transmitters, The eager is chiefly fisected at Premier Mussolin's pien "with thei and injustices," us well as at his candidly worded charge that France's military hegemony is responsible for Europe's unrest The Nationalist pross deletes there passages from its reports, publishing merely the Duce's state: ment that "the French people is not naturally aggressive." 'The Radical paper "La Republique," dismisses the Duce's charges as a mere Daraphrase of his former "unjust and untrue," statements, although the paper' admits that "certain quarters sometimes unduly exploited for their own ends France' longing for security," However, the paper dwells extensively on Mussolini's "important statement that in no circumstances would Italy start a war."
'The Socialist organ "Populaire" professes to view the Duce's ex-Pression of goodwill scoptically, as. he obviously forgot that only'
recent occasion he had sung the Pralver of the guns.—Trans-Ocean working for real and lasting peace will ultimately overcome the French resistance, Franco-German relations ly come in for a large amount of ecmimient, all editorial writers admitting ' that unfortunately the chasm between the two nations has grown wider instead of narrower during the past year, and insisting that this development was not one of Germany's chosing. Opinions are divided as to whether or not this state of affairs is beyond Paris, Jan. 2.
French political circles are greatly interested in the de Reich made to Pre burg by the German mi accompany their New Year message. They demand, first, the modification Of, OF otherwise opposition to, the Young Plan; second, the permanent, control of the minorities necessary, to guarantee their protection; third, balance of armaments, those of Germany being proportioned—to those of other powers.—A.ntP. mending, While the Nationalist press describes France as "a vindictive and terrified victor whom Germany. can never hope to placate, moderate organs like the "Berliner Zeitung:
Mittay," the Catholic organ "Germania" and the "Vossische Zeitung" n that a continuation of the present Franco-German differences must spell disaster for Burope and that therefore no effort must be spared to reconciliate and convince France that her attitude: towards revision will mean for Europe further confusion, if not even something very much' wars The "Vossische Zeitung" at the fame time publishes a fervent appeal for Franco-German cooperation by former French Premier Herriot and expresses the hope that the forthcoming session of the League of Nations Council will help to clear the "atmosphere of suspicion and lead the way to a new accord and pettlement—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
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