Determined to Make Future Agreements with Powers as Fully Sovereign State: Move to End Tension London, Mar. 19. GERMANY is determined in future to make her agreements with foreign nations as a fully sovereign state, free and unfettered, thereby ending the ten: ion between France and Germany, declared Gen. Joachim von Ribbentrop, Herr Adolf Hitler's ambassador-ut-large, in a lengthy speech giving the German ease for the re-militarization of the Rhineland before the Council of the League of Nations this mor: ing.
In this spirit, he' added, the German Chancellor has made an historic unparalleled offer of peace in Europe.
The contents and implication of the German proposals do not need comment, They are so extensive and comprehensive that every statesman with the welfare of Europe at heart can only wish to see them realised in one form or another.
Opening the proceedings, the German delegate began by expressing the hope that the resumption of relations by Germany with the League might ove the turning point in the history of Europe after the manifold confusions of the unhappy years after the War.
Stating that the fundamental German attitude towards the Locarno 'Treaty was outlined by Herr Hitler on March 7, Gen, von Ribbentrap outlined the' main features of the treaty, ithe most important of which, he said, was to exclude the use of force between France and Belgium, on the one hand, and Germany, on the other, for all time.
The Locarno Treaty, the German delegate declared, carried a burden for Gemany, leaving the important and populous Rhineland without any military protection, "T believe that, from the standpoint of higher Justice, such a limitation of the most primitive sovereign rights would itself, in the long run, be ai-most an intolerable condition for 9 nation'
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