Berlin, May 19.
Most German democratic papers are sympathetic towards M. Briand's jen in regard to the proposed European Federation though they criticize the more important details. The Nationalist Press violently attacks what it calls an attempt to perpetuate French hegemony over! the European continent. The communist organs Join the outcry as. they see in the scheme an intention to forge a solid Pan-European block against Soviet Russia.
The Democrat-Federal ex-Minister Herr Koch declared that Germany's Joining the union must be condiynal upon, firstly, the present intolerable state of affairs on the stern frontier being improved, secondly, no prejudice to future: possibilities of an union between Germany and Austria, and thirdly, the problem of Minorities being attended to immediately and regulared once for all.
The leading deputy of the People's Party, Bat inal traced the name- plan to Bismarck, and, whi pressing himself as assent 8¥mpathy with the scheme, raised number of questions upon the sati factory solution of whic ed, depended Germany's participation—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
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