ident Von Hindenburg, this' after') noon, si approval of the Polish Liquidation Agreement thus ratifying the Inst. outstanding Dill of the Young Plan and allied pacts. The President addressed a letter to the Chancellor of the Reich in which he stated his decision to sign the Polish pact after his legal advisers who originally thought that the pact retired two-thirds majority vote, had changed their minds and agreed that ible majority vote would The President added "In making my decision I have given full weight to the protest by the strong minority of the Reichstag and I appreciate particularly the opposition to the Pact and the Treaty of Commerce, by those who are victims of the distressing conditions obtaining jin the eastern marches of our country. The present Pact aims, in the first instance,.to protect the home and existence of our kin. beyond the frontier. I hope that this aim will be achieved through the Pact, After picturing in broad outlines the ce-operation between agriculture al and industrial production of the eastern border and their role with regard to taxation, the President] said:—"In view of the President's} constitutional position I will not and. Jeannot here now give a precise pro: gramme nor can I indicate a definite route, but I consider it my duty to urge the Federal Government to devise an eastern programme on such basis with all possible teh and get it sanctioned by the proper authorities. It is in the firm expectation only that this will done that I overcome my own misgivings about the Polish tion Agreement and Trade-Pact just signed."—Trans-'Ocean Kuo Min.
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