The Archive · 1938

BRITISH PRESS FREEDOM FLATLY ASSERTED SPECIAL TO THE "NCD.

London, Mar. 11. of proposals, ranging from those affecting higher strategy to those relating to the smallest details of a soldier's daily routine.

These included:

Inter-departmental re-examination of Cardwell. system; ganization and mechanization; ganization of artillery; Enlargement of the numbers and re-of warrant officers; fe conditions of officers; ation of factors determining of enlistment for long-ás at nit, ed to supplement present, designed: to. supplement the measures already taken to make the army a career for those who wish to adopt it; Modernization of barracks and proved living conditions for soldiers; Tncreased financial benefits, in the way both of family allowances and increments of pay, after periods of completed service, The attitude of the British Gov-

Mr. Here-Belisha recalled the hisernment towards the problems in Central Europe, in particular those in Austria and Czechoslovakia, is believed to have been outlined by Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, in his talk yesterday with Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister.

The purpose of the talk was to decide the most opportune moment to follow up earlier contacts between Lord Halifax and Sir Nevile Henderson, the. British Ambassador to Germany, and Herr Hitler.

The British Government is believed to be no less anxious for a settlement of all outstanding matters with Germany than with Italy.

The German view, however, is that the question of Colonies is the only issue between the two countries.

Britain maintains that any discussion on Germany's colonial claim, in which other countries are concerned, must be linked with the wider question of European peace.—Reuter, torical army reorganizations associated with the names of Viscount Cardwell and Lord Haldane, and spoke of the new factors introduced by submarines and, above all, aircraft.

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