Munich, Oct. 30. position as regards the Brussels conference was further clu dated to-day by the Reichs Foreign Minister, Baron von Neurath, in an address at the annual cortgress of the Academy for German Law.
Following a fundamental analysis of the political idea of collectivity Baron von Neurath remarked that the forthcoming Nine-Power Conf constituted an occasion for considering methods of dealing with international conflicts "Germany", the Foreign Minister went on "was not in a position to accept the invitation to the conference because the latter was being held for the purpose of applying the conditions of the Nine-Power Treaty of 1922, Since Germany is not a signatory of this treaty, she cannot logically be expected to participate in discussions concerning the invocation of this treaty. In the German answer the point was, however, made clear that Germany is willing at any time to ce-operate in an attempt at mediation between China and Japan provided that the essential conditions exist and that the attempt is undertaken in an appropriate manner."
Commenting on the decision of the League of Nations of which the Brussels conference is the outgrowth, Baron von Neurath declared "without taking up a position of any kind regarding the conflict itself I should like to remark that I should regard conditions as highly unfavourable for attempts to terminate the conflict if these attempts are inspired by decisions such as those recently arrived at by the League. These decisions certainly contained only a slight infusion of the policy of collectivity. I am of the opinion that whatever their attitude towards the conflict may be, the powers who wish to adiate between the warring parties annet pursue this aim by assuming the position of judges of moral
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