Berlin, Nov. 6 a speech held before a distinguished audience of one of the capttal's leading clubs, the, "Dent sche Klub," the Foreign Minister, Baron Constantin von Neurath this evening made a forceful plea for! a "foreign "understanding "of the Beaceal and progrnsive olives Germany's withdrawal from Geneva.
Referring to. the forthcoming] Government will appeal to all Ger-Jebiseite "in "which the Hitler
mang to say "Yea to the Geneva "Now Herr von Newrath char tented the appeal as one tot conscience of the world, even more {han to that of the German people After emphasising that the recen* retirement. from Geneva was not {fo be taken as a token of either policy of exasperation nor autmpt to sabotage the Disarmanent. Conference, the Minister Mated that Germany's individual Action should be regarded as a. new improved road to the same elf goo! of international accord, "Germany's exit has not been the cause of the serious crisis under which the League of Nations is now labouring. "It was the crisis Inherent' ip the organisation and the development "of the League ed Germany's exit since long, said that the foundation, of the "Geneva institution bore within it an ominous contradic since it represented a stimu both to idealistic hopes and i perialistic ambitions such tory hax never seen. The war-weary' peoples of 1919 were promised Tasting peace determined by justice, mat orgarfsation, the pri-In: reality, they. were given a
mary goal of which, in the of its" most important members, Was to perpetuate their powerful Positions won by the Treaty of Versailles and permanently to repress the vanquished.
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